[GVARC] Fest. of winds, ATV, Astronauts

Fri, 02 May 2003 11:27:12 -0700

Folks:

Come on down to the Monterey Peninsula, weekend of 10, 11.  The Marina 
Festival of Winds ( http://www.marinafestival.com ) expects to attract 
10-15K total folks for the two days.  Ham radio will be well represented, 
with an HF station, Possible UHF Echolink Station, and a Kite suppoorted ATV 
system.  In addition, on Saturday, Captain Daniel Bursch, KD5PNU, an 
Astronaut with the current record of hours at ISS will join us, operating 
the ham station in the science tent.  Capt Bursch will be also glad to talk 
to any of you and your harmonics (kids) about science and the space program. 
(He'll probably will have some NASA patches to hand out for the kids....)
We set up the station, some of us on Friday Afternoon, certainly early 
Saturday Morning, for opening at 10:00AM.

NEED AN ATV CZAR!

Elvie Hall, one of the senior students from CSUMB will fly her capstone
project, a (remote controlled) pan and tilt camera from a
Kite, and she will periodically bring the camera down to off-load
pictures.  We hope to find a someone with a ham radio TV
transmitter to add to her camera package so that we can have LIVE TV
pictures from the kite to the tent.  She has video and sound outputs from 
her camera with RCA plugs.
Get in touch if you want to 'Get Radioactive' for this one...

73, de Pat Barthelow, AA6EG    [email protected]

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