[HCRA] FW: [Fwd: [Balloonatics] [Fwd: Re: [Balloon] [UTARC Chat] UX-7 Video Fixed]]

[Daniel Sullivan]

You guys and gals will love this for many reasons:

1) Really shows the more interesting work in recovering balloon payloads.

2) Really shows what kinda fun rednecks can have with something that can be
perceived as a firearm

3) Shows why you guys in DX crew are so loved by the rest of us (someone has
to hike the mountain)

Our last payload (VWS-3) did end up in a similar predicament. After several
efforts and the use of a rope saw, the payload involuntarily came down from
70 ft up in a Poplar Tree near a pond behind a very remote house on a dirt
road in rural Northern VA. For more on that
http://www.viennawireless.org/balloon/index.php

Dan S
KO1D

-----Original Message-----
From: Balloon-owner at mail.viennawireless.org
[mailto:Balloon-owner at mail.viennawireless.org] On Behalf Of Ben Gelb
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 9:24 PM
To: balloon at viennawireless.org
Subject: [Fwd: [Balloonatics] [Fwd: Re: [Balloon] [UTARC Chat] UX-7 Video
Fixed]]

Clearly we were too gentle on the recovery of VWS-3. Hehe..

-Ben

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Subject: 	[Balloonatics] [Fwd: Re: [UTARC Chat] UX-7 Video Fixed]
Date: 	Tue, 4 Apr 2006 01:05:08 -0000 (UTC)
From: 	David Hoffman <ke4fgw at isp01.net>
Reply-To: 	Balloonatics at yahoogroups.com
To: 	balloonatics at yahoogroups.com



This is an awesome video of our 5th recovery attempt at UTARC's UX-7
payload.

David Hoffman - KE4FGW

Subject: [Fwd: Re: [UTARC Chat] UX-7 Video Fixed]
From:    "David Hoffman" <ke4fgw at isp01.net>
Date:    Tue, April 4, 2006 12:46 am
To:      balloonatics at yahoogroups.com
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From: "Mike Coffey" <mike at mcoffey.com
Date: Mon, April 3, 2006 4:14 pm
To: "UTARC general chat list" <chat at utarc.org
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Travis' downloadable video is online at:
http://balloon.utarc.org/ux7recovery.wmv (74 MB)
And, I might add, Travis did a really nice job with it. All we need to do
is to add some back-story commentary and some select pictures and it's
definitely Slashdot-worthy material. Brace yourself, Sunsite. :-P

Mike

On Apr 3, 2006, at 10:57 AM,
Travis J. Maclay wrote: I think I know what happened with the encoding on
the UX-7 video. It has been fixed and is being uploaded now to the UTARC
FTP site. When it is finished, I assume that Mike or someone can check it
in and move it to where it needs to go. Be forewarned, however, it is 73.8
MB. If you download, you're gonna want high speed access first. It is in
WMV format.  Travis  N4TJM
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