I have done many windy launches in our time. Like 40 Mph winds. BUT This is crazy! The first launch is no big deal but the rest WOW!!! https://youtu.be/C377l7pBkzA Joe WB9SBD -- Sig The Original Rolli

[from the Washington Post] PBS series reveals great views of Earth from space, value of satellite photography By Erin Blakemore Oct. 19, 2019 at 8:00 a.m. EDT If you’ve ever viewed a solar eclipse, yo

I received my order for LYNQ trackers that I placed on Idegogo sometime in the last couple of years. https://lynqme.com/ I had a chance to play with the devices, and I gotta say, I'm fairly impressed.

Hi everyone, GPSL 2020 is officially set for July 9-11. Friday's events will be at the University of Nebraska-Omaha campus near 62nd and Dodge Streets in Omaha. I know there are some who won't be able

Launched the WB8ELK Skytracker last Sunday. It is now at the coast of Portugal. -Sila.

KA6TVU-11 has completed one lap and is over Saskatchewan this morning. KA6TVU-12 is in Southern Europe - was launched a few days later. https://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=7&call=a%2FKA6TVU-11&timerange=10

The sat team and the University of Louisiana wants to fly a Ublox max7 and would like to know the string to send to make it work > 18,000 meters nick Cell 337 258 2527 Helping UL become a world Class

Hey Gang, So a colleague here at Cornell is entering his PHD program in Atmospheric Sciences, and is quite interested in balloons. He may well do a thesis using superpressure balloons. Anyway, he is a

Prospective GPSL 2020 attendees, I'm starting to contact local venue providers on a GPSL 2020 location. I have received a favorable response from University of Nebraska-Omaha and we may be able to use

https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2019/07/31/balloon-launched-from-world-scout-jamboree-floats-across-the-atlantic-ocean/

Does anyone know anything about this or have any experience with it? https://lynqme.com/ Larry KJ6PBS

Wonderful show with loads of beautiful black and white and color footage going back to the first manned high altitude capsules of the 1930's which led to a space race of sorts between the US and the S

Fascinating flight. I believe this is the smallest balloon (600 gram) to achieve a stratospheric float. They are flying a Skytracker board without the solar panels but with a 4 AAA lithium battery pac

I really Miss these Units. What is out there that is closest to it? Joe WB9SBD -- Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com

KD0VJI-11 Our local HAM radio club asked us to put a balloon they could track for their field day. I guess we messed up in the helium calculation. 😊 It turned into a floater. It is a 600 gram latex ba

Gang, While unpacking from GPSL, I found a nice, blackened, crescent wrench in my launch toolbox that wasn't mine. Someone must have swept it up while helping me pack, and accidentally tossed it into

Would anyone be able to provide me with a text dump of all NEMA strings throughout a flight? Not just the broadcasts, but like a file from a data logger attached to the GPS. Thanks, -derek

All the presentation videos as well as bonus pictures can be found at: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC_5T3R8arKLWKymoNhTNKiQ/videos

Here are my photos and videos of the launch. Feel free to use at your discretion. You can find them here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/6UspRcTtXEzBfFaz6 -- Mark Garrett, KA9SZX Tri States Public Radio WI

I was going to forward the live stream captured on Friday that Jim from PENS was taking and the link says the video is unavailable. Is it somewhere else now? This is the link I was trying to use: Pell