We'll be launching about 9am CDT Saturday (1400 UTC). Crews should plan to arrive at the Herington airport at 7am (this was decided after the earlier msgs were posted). It's about 1 hour from

The winds have changed a little, but not that much. For 75kft, we'll be due west at 12 miles. For 95kft, due west at 22 miles. This is a bit north of Hwy 4 west of Herington. My prediction for

I'm on my second day of 2.5 hours of sleep, so this will be short. All payloads were recovered. KD0FW's ATV transmitter was tracked down by DFing - took 2-3 hours after landing to locate it.

Hi everyone! First of all I would like to congratulate all the teams for a very successful launch, flight and recovery. This was my first attendance at a high altitude balloon event and I had

Can whoever has the sign-in sheet from the lectures make the contents available? Thanks Harry KC5TRB

Thanks from the ANSR group for all the hard work by Paul and others to get GPSL-2002 organized. Lets have them more often than every nine years. Hope we can fly again soon as a group and work on

Well, the tape ran OK, but it was a little disappointing. Apparently I induced a lot of twisting into the load line when I wrapped it on different things as we went through the preparation. The

Mark, Too bad about the video tape at the lower levels, maybe youcan get frame capture or two that are good. Can't let thatcharacter from Idaho be the only one to get pictures of the balloons

Doug Eubanks wrote: What I use is a big swivel - I think it is rated at like 5000 lbs (I have seen some at 1500# and 500#, if memory serves me - which it doesn't very often anymore). It is for high

wow, sounds like all attendees had a great experience. Am sorry to have missed the event, but have an opportunity to support the work of the Mars Society in the Canadian polar arctic on Devon Island.

Change the altitude of TVNSP's capsule to 88,163 feet. My flight data recorder has an entry for 15:58:15 for that altitude. Paul

If you have any RF log files, please upload them to the files area on Yahoo Groups here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GPSL/files/GPSL2002Logs/ I've put a couple in there already. I'll also have the

I'm gathering RF logs from our tracking station(s) will do as you request. I pulled logs from findu for all capsules the other night. Would you like me to send them or have you gotten them

If you are unable to post to the files area, just e-mail your log to me and I can put it there for you. 73 de Mark N9XTN

TVNSP recently completed a buy of Garmin GPS-35LVS units at a discount. These are the mouse-looking units complete with patch antenna and are the low-voltage (3-6V) input and true RS-232 output

I posted my personal log file and all of the otherjunk that my TNC picked up. Zack Clobes, W0ZC Project: Traveler

Here's the peak altitude as recorded by mycontroller: 22204m

I'd be interested in the amount of nozzle lift that each group put into their balloons, the size of balloon and weight of the flight train (parachute and payload), and also size of the parachute.

Since the Yahoo group page made all the GPSL photos I posted really small and grainy I've deleted them and moved them to a different location: http://www.kd7lmo.net/gpsl2002.html 73s de Michael

Traveler: 600g, 10lbs of lift, 2.2lb package with rigging,about 1250ft/min ascent.