Decided to try my hand at chasing and recovering a NWS balloon. This one was was launched at 7AM from Peachtree City, GA and landed in East Cobb (NW Metro ATL). The homeowner was very friendly and gra

The HABhub servers will be shut down toward end of this month*. The HABhub predictor, tracker, SSDV, burst calculator, UKHAS wiki and habitat site will all be affected. As alternatives I suggest folk

https://groups.io/g/GPSL/files/GPSL%202022%20Technical%20Sessions%20Audio%20Files Got the second session with Hans Summers of QRP Labs fame squeezed down to 8 Megs (MP3), but left the earlier 22 Meg f

Greetings, Apologies for this short notice. i got it of another list and thought that there might be some interest. New Amateur Satellites are scheduled to be launched Sunday at 5pm Central. That is l

Free to good home, send me your address and I'll send you my old but working Spot PT2. Hardware only, it needs a ~$15 subscription to be used, but can be canceled after. Was used successfully on a few

Chinese man trapped aloft in hydrogen balloon for 2 days BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say a man has been found safe after he spent two days aloft in a hydrogen balloon, traveling about 320 kilom

Mike, It's been 3 1/2 weeks since I emailed you about this, and in a few days it will be 8 weeks since GPSL 2022. Where are the videos and session presentation slides? Many interested folks would not

hi i saw an email sometime back, asking for ideas as to when to schedule the gpsl for 2023. i vote for anytime after july 2nd :) thanks ! Jules Get Outlook for Android

B_._ BASE 114 showed a successful cutaway at the predicted altitude of 15 km. Easy recovery in a soybean field adjacent to the property owner's home. He was amazed that we had tracked the descent into

BASE 115 flew today. Flight ascents were a little bit faster than predicted. I am afraid that my students have adopted an overly conservative approach (they have heard about Mike Manes :)) and we gave

We will be wrapping up our summer flights on the next two days. Friday, July 29 at 8:00 AM EDT (1200UTC) we will do a test flight on the reprogrammed balloon cutdown device. The intention is to cut th

Hi An interesting thing happened on our SABRE-31 flight yesterday. Our VE5AA-12 tracker gps failed at or near 39986 feet. The tracker is using a GT320FW(AS) that's been flown before and worked fine. H

We're working to get the issue resolved. I don't have an ETA at the moment, but hopefully it will be back up yet this weekend. Zack Clobes, W0ZC Project: Traveler www.projecttraveler.org Join us on Fa

BASE 113 plans to fly tomorrow at 1400 UTC (10 AM EDT) from North Montgomery Schools in Cherry Grove, Indiana. Tandem balloons, each 600 grams, equal lift, planning to cut one away at 15 km (50000 fee

BASE 112 will be released about 8:30 EDT (12:30 UTC) on Tuesday, July 19 from the roof of the Julian Science and Mathematics Center on the DePauw University campus in Greencastle Indiana. Tandem ballo

Hi The SWIRLL rooftop camera captured this just a moment before launch. 73, Bruce - VE5BNC

Hey gang, sorry we were so absent on the zoom. My tethering service failed, which the me off my game for mobile tracking. Then we just got busy. The flight flew about the expected path, peaking around

Hi Just want to thank everyone who worked so hard to put on GPSL 2022. I have a great time as usual. 73, Bruce - VE5BNC

When I tried filling the balloon tonight I found my hydrogen tank had leaked over the last 2 years and was nearly empty leaving only about half what I needed. Definitely in a negative lift situation n

Hi all, I'm looking into adding some 'basic' parsing of telemetry found in APRS comment fields, for use in the Sondehub-Amateur APRS gateway. To help with this, I'm wondering if members of this list c