Today's predictions for both Saturday and Sunday (6th and 7th) show extremely light winds below 70,000 ft. Both predictions show a landing about 7 miles from the launch site on a bearing of about

How about the airport at Herrington? They wanted us to launch there before. It's a little farther south (one of the capsules landed near there last year). Just a thought, Don Mark Conner

As I recall they had a big (old bomber base?) hanger building they were going to let us prep and fill in. Don Don Pfister wrote:

That would be about 40 miles from Manhattan - not unreasonable, and sure beats not launching. I see on Mapquest there is an airport a few miles east of Herington - assume that's it. If they have a

I received the following from Mike W5VSI of EOSS: Re ATV on 434 and 439 MHz: remember that if these are NTSC AM sigs, they have sidebands running out to +/- 6 MHz around the carrier freq. Thus the

There will be some interference with strong signals from the two balloons at 434 and 439.25 MHz, but probably not too bad when they get weaker, particularly if the two balloons seperate a bit during

I would think that a few miles of separation and that Iwill be horizontal polarized would have some effect on the out come. I thinkthat it would be great to see three video signals all on at the same

I agree, if the choice is fly it this way or don't fly it, let's put it in the air and see what happens. 73 de Mark N9XTN

Regardless of the winds, it should be hot and humid next weekend (highs in the 90s, dew points in the high 60s). The default ascent/descent profile I use (1000 fpm up/95kft burst/1000 fpm sea-level

Hi Mark, It's been my experience that during July and August when there are light winds in the jet stream region, the stratospheric winds will prevail and depending on how high the balloons go,

It appears it could be somewhat breezy next Saturday morning. A surface low is forecast to form over the Front Range, and the gradient between than and high pressure to the southeast will make for

The Manhattan Area Amateur Radio Society (MAARS) has welcomed us to use their 147.255+ repeater while we're there. It should be quite suitable for talk-in and so forth during our stay. Today's wind

Okay, I'm here and have some email access. If we have to move the launch site, I'm going to have problems with the helium. Adding Don's request, I have nine tanks of helium to deal with. My

The landing forecast is becoming somewhat more favorable for a Herington launch. Using last night's MRF winds and replacing the forecast above 60,000 ft with real winds from Topeka, I get a landing

Paul, do you still want me to come out and help pick up and move the helium? I can bring my own helium, Mike KD0FW has offered to haul it out there for me, so don't worry about that tank. As I recall

I left a voice mail, will keep trying. Thanks for the 75,000 prediction. I will be flying a 600/300 gram so that is about as high as I expect to get, maybe a little higher if all goes

Don, I'll check my cell phone when I get home. Please leave a phone number and I'll call you tonight. Let's plan on Wednesday to get the helium. I'll need a specific location that we'll launch

Received the following from Don KA0JLF (HABITAT/SkyLab): --- I just talked to Harold about the Herrington Airport. We can use it if we want. Unfortunately the hanger available is not all that big.

Here's what I have for everyone's slot information. Let me know if something's not correct. KD0FW: Using DF for recovery Traveler: Not time-slotted, interval is quasi-random. Zack, what's the

Does anyone have a firm list of AV equipment for the presentations? Will we have an LCD projector? VCR? laptop connection for a projector? Also, thanks to all those helping to get everything