I used the SSTVCam module from Argent Data hooked up to a transmitter or handie talkie. You get a frame every 71 seconds that way and it is great to have the students watch the images come back live.

Here's a more detailed list of Vincent Lally's papers that I just located at the NCAR archives: https://nldr.library.ucar.edu/archon/?p=collections/controlcard&id=17 - Bill WB8ELK

Lots and lots of links to papers here that might prove quite useful. http://www.archives.ucar.edu/search/vinlally/0/10//tetroon - Bill WB8ELK

Looking over the archives of Vin Lally and the GHOST superpressure balloon under the section..." How the GHOST balloon worked". I see something called a Magnetic Cutdown on the flight train. Anyone ha

Here's a good start about the GHOST superpressure program. http://www.archives.ucar.edu/exhibits/vinlally/ - Bill WB8ELK

Joe, I visitied Vin Lally at NCAR in the late 1980's and he gave me a reprint of his detailed article about designing and performance of Tetroons. I'll look for that article since it was a good one. Y

I haven't seen any of my flights this year on the S3 Research automated launch notices....not sure why. I just looked back at the S3 Research archives and not one of my flights is there. - Bill WB8ELK

I'll try this again...didn't go through the first time to GPSL for some reason: -----Original Message-----

WB8ELK-11 on APRS.FI . There is not much data since the reports are every 5 minutes and we were downed within 15 minutes of launch....ignore the duplicate 6671 reports however...the second 6671 altitu

I was thinking hail...but didn't see any evidence of hail. Probably very heavy rain or downburst winds. It was a small localized thunderstorm cell that popped up shortly after launch. The last altitud

Ever wonder what might happen if you launch a balloon into a small thunderstorm cell. We did that today at Bunker Hill, Indiana. There was a small thunderstorm a couple of miles away at launch. At 667

I'm receiving a nice signal on 20m here in Alabama from Jonathan Trappe's manned trans-Atlantic cluster balloon now flying just east of Maine. 14.0956 MHz (about 1880 Hz in the waterfall display) at 0

Launch around 1200 UTC Sept 12th (Thursday morning) from Caribou, Maine. Jonathan Trappe Cluster Balloon trans-Atlantic flight: www.clusterballoon.com 110 Baud ASCII RTTY 8-bits no parity 1 stop bit:

www.batc.tv just join the British Amateur Television Club and the streaming video is free. - Bill WB8ELK

Hi Mike, Last year we found out that crickets just might be extraterrestrial since they all survived a trip into the stratosphere. - Bill WB8ELK

I can just hear the B-11 long duration foil balloon over France. It is on 434.500 MHz USB and transmitting DominoEX16. I can hear it via the Rouen France Globaltuners.com radio and am decoding it. Com

Happy Birthday Joe WB9SBD, Chuck W9IH and all those that share a birthday today. - Bill WB8ELK

Hi All, It is an Ozonesonde identical to what they fly here in Huntsville every week. You can see the 403 MHz transmitter and the humidity/temperature sensor on the flex cable that Vaisala uses and is

Wow....wonder if I can hang the payloads on my wall as a trophy?? Might want to talk to the city council about listing weather balloons as an "Endangered Species" otherwise every yahoo with a gun in D

Keith WA0TJT contacted me and indicated that the Boy Scout National Jamboree balloon flight would launch around 1400 UTC this Monday morning. Callsign on APRS: K2BSA-11 He will be flying a prototype o