I came up with a new ARHAB bumper sticker idea during dinner at Blaze Pizza.

Bill, Thank you for the write up. Enthralling read! Steve AE8AT

Thanks for writing this. I feel that many of the "new space" people are more caught up with cool than needed. Jayant

As often is the case, the pioneers in technology are too far in advance of demand. All I see here is a small rocket launched from a not-very-high hot air balloon. I do wish them success and hopefully

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2019/Q1/successful-launch-of-rocket-from-high-altitude-balloon-makes-space-more-accessible-to-microsatellites.html Zack

With the super cold temps we have had here the past two days It was 30 below this morning. 60+ below wind chill. But anyway the 30 below got me to wonder what the temps aloft were

Hi Zach, Thanks for posting, i had been planning on using some time this winter to get together some videos on past flights. I didn't konw of Konverter, but i'll give the tool a try, it should help

I'm not sure if anyone is using my KML Konverter tool, but I recently updated it to include telemetry data in the spreadsheet output file. Any arbitrary data sets within the comments section of the

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m56XhGC9ipg 73 de Mark N9XTN

I'm looking for someone near Houston that can launch a weather balloon for a student. Thanks

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612417/darpa-is-testing-stratospheric-balloons-that-ride-the-wind-so-they-never-have-to-come-down/

I am going to start putting repeaters into my new Yaesu FT2D. I have a few questions: 1. How do you select the repeaters to use for your launches? 2. How do you decide on the frequencies to use for

For anyone interested in my stargazing newsletter, I just posted December's. It's at, https://stargazingalmanac.substack.com/

My last three articles in Nuts and Volts cover this topic. I have notes and code in each article.

Our Civil Air Patrol Squadron got some Raspberry Pi kits for STEM activities. We might have a couple left over when we are done. I am wondering if there are any kits or additional "sensors" we can add

Crossposting this from the APRSSIG, since there are so many aprs.fi users here. 73 de Mark N9XTN Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 09:32:36 +0300 (EEST) From: Heikki Hannikainen <hessu@...> To:

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Here here! It was a great event in 2013.

Mike, Looking forward to it! We really enjoyed our time in Pella at your last GPSL. 73 de Mark N9XTN

GPSL will be in Pella, IA,, June 13, 14 and 15. Genelle is planning to recreate our Wednesday evening picnic at our house for those that come in on Wednesday afternoon. We are busy planning an