I suddenly find myself with a great deal more time on my hands. I'll be looking into this over the next few days and should be able to get the following ready to go:<br><br>* Hooking up all the APRS stuff when it comes in<br clear="all">
* Helium<br>* Mapping out all the tools and getting a good projection.<br><br>I don't know how much time I will have on Saturday, as I'm moving and that's a good day to enlist help for the bigger stuff. It'll be my goal to have it all ready to go by Friday if we have a good plan together.<br>
<br>I'd also like to go scout out a launch site one afternoon this week if anyone's game to come with me. <br><br>Christie<br>_______<br>"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." -- W. Blake.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Mikolaj Habryn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dichro@rcpt.to">dichro@rcpt.to</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Sunday's meeting resulted in a grand new plan... to launch THIS WEEKEND.<br>
<br>
At this stage we're still waiting on the FAA to chat about longer term<br>
plans (presumably they're busy keeping planes from crashing into each<br>
other and such bagatelles), but if we take care to stay under the<br>
FAR101 requirements and out of air corridors, we should be fine. Ozzy<br>
suggests launching from somewhere around here -<br>
<a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=37.648762,-121.377983&spn=0.214204,0.318947&t=h&z=12" target="_blank">http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=37.648762,-121.377983&spn=0.214204,0.318947&t=h&z=12</a><br>
- and staying south of 132.<br>
<br>
There's a surprisingly small list of things to do (they're in wave,<br>
tagged spacebridge - I haven't added everyone by hand, but subscribing<br>
to <a href="mailto:spacebridge@googlegroups.com">spacebridge@googlegroups.com</a> should magically give you edit access<br>
to that wave and all the others - just don't start emailing that<br>
address!). Thanks to Brian, Blake and Christopher (who have Done This<br>
Before - <a href="http://spaceballoonproject.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://spaceballoonproject.blogspot.com/</a>) we have a parachute<br>
and guidance on making CHDK work on the camera.<br>
<br>
Two more balloons and all the APRS gear are currently in transit;<br>
Andrew has the G1 and will make it even smarter before launch.<br>
<br>
Problems left to solve (from wave):<br>
* payload enclosure and rigging<br>
* confirm where we're getting helium and arrange to have two tanks<br>
waiting (ideally for weekend pickup), and what we need to know to<br>
safely move it around<br>
* the APRS tracker will require external power (but everything else<br>
has its own batteries)<br>
* consult tools mentioned at various earlier points to plot likely<br>
trajectories and select a precise launch location<br>
* who will be available for assembling things on Saturday and<br>
launching/chasing on Sunday<br>
<br>
Let's do this.<br>
<br>
m.<br>
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