[K3PZN-List] Re: NS-7 Balloon Flight This Weekend

[Pat Kilroy]

NS-7 was a huge success!

The first photos and initial results of last
weekend's local balloon flight are in!

Go to http://www.patkilroy.com/bpp/ and
enjoy!  Click on the "details here" link.

Hey!  There's lots of room for more to join
us.  (See the invitations while there.)

More updates are trickling in, so check back
later too.

Cheers,

Pat

P.S. Thank you to Curt WB8YYY for your help
in the "chase"!

P.P.S. We are still missing a small APRS box
(W3EAX-14) that fell off over Westminster!


At Saturday 5/20/2006 04:04 AM, k3pzn-list-request at mailman.qth.net
wrote Re: K3PZN-List Digest, Vol 28, Issue 8:
>Today's Topics:
>    [snip]
>2. NS-7 Balloon Flight This Weekend (Pat Kilroy)
>    [snip]
>
>From: Pat Kilroy <Patrick.L.Kilroy at nasa.gov>
>Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 16:16:03 -0400
>To: k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net
>Message: 2
>
>          Simulated Satellites!
>   Student payloads to the stratosphere!
>
>WE ARE GO for a local high-altitude balloon
>mission this weekend.  We plan to launch
>from the Hagerstown, Maryland area tomorrow
>morning, Saturday, May 20, 2006, at about
>9 a.m. EDT.
>
>Details are given at the NS-7 announcement
>page at http://www.patkilroy.com/bpp/
>
>How can you participate?
>
>Oh, there are many opportunities!  See the
>NS-7 announcement page given above or study
>the TASK LIST FOR ALL FLIGHTS below.
>
>Projected flight path: Expected to fly
>over Westminster, Maryland.
>
>Coverage area: All points within 400 miles
>radius, including as far as Montreal, Que,
>Canada; Port Elgin, Ont, Canada; Portland,
>Me; Frankfort, Ky; Columbia, SC; and East
>Lansing, Mi.
>
>Please share your passions and your results
>with us!
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Pat Kilroy
>BPP Project Manager
>
>
>TASK LIST FOR ALL FLIGHTS
>
>TO:    All Radio Amateurs
>FROM:   Pat Kilroy (Patrick.L.Kilroy at nasa.gov)
>SUBJECT: To Do List for Next Launch
>
>GREENBELT, MD
>
>Attention all licensed Amateur Radio operators!
>
>YOU ARE INVITED to participate in the next
>balloon mission.
>
>I am looking for a few volunteers, each to
>perform a specific task during the flight in
>progress.
>
>You may operate your equipment from a mobile,
>portable, club, school, work or home station.
>Or you may come out and work with one of our
>students to show him or her how to operate
>the radio.
>
>Experience is NOT required for most of
>these tasks.  Enthusiasm and ingenuity
>however *is* required.  Help is available
>wherever desired.
>
>The key sign-up volunteer positions are:
>
>1. Act as net control station (NCS) on the
>High Altitude Balloon Experimenter's Net.
>
>2. Check in and participate on the HF net.
>
>3. Copy and save the packet radio APRS data
>over the three-hour mission duration.
>
>4. Copy and save other telemetry on its
>downlink frequency.
>
>5. Make a time-stamped audio recording of
>the net in progress and some of the
>telemetry sounds.  (Using the N5ACR method,
>you can record to a standard 120-minute VHS
>tape in the "4-hour" mode using a hi-fi VCR
>with WWV time recorded continuously on the
>right track.  On the left track, you step
>through the frequencies of interest and
>then repeat the cycle, capturing parts of
>the HF net, cross-band net, APRS data, ATV
>audio, and record any "personal" notes or
>observations if you wish, for example.)
>
>6. Record the beam headings between the
>balloon and your location, and share them,
>noting the exact time that is associated
>with each entry (az, el, and time).
>
>7. Act as NCS for the flight cross-band
>repeater, uplink on 440 MHz, downlink on
>2m FM (when flown).
>
>8. Capture the Amateur TV video and
>audio coming down on Cable Channel 60
>to VHS tape (when flown).  You will
>need a standard hi-fi VCR, a 440 MHz
>beam antenna with preamp.
>
>9. Assist someone with one of the tasks
>noted above.
>
>10. Take pictures and share them with
>us.
>
>11. Shoot some video and share it with
>us.
>
>12. Regardless of your type of par-
>ticipation, write a short account of
>what you experienced during the flight
>(or leading up to the flight) and share
>it with us!
>
>If you want more information regarding
>any task then please call or write any
>time.
>
>Please sign up for a task or suggest
>someone whom I can ask directly.
>
>Invite others!  Please pass this in-
>vitation on to others at your club
>meeting, on a net, forwarded e-mail,
>or word of mouth.
>
>The next mission will be exciting and
>a lot of learning and fun.  Come join
>us!
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Pat Kilroy, N8PK
>SimSat Principal Investigator


=================================================================
Patrick L. Kilroy                                             WK
Integration & Test (I&T) Manager    301-286-1984 Voice
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center    301-286-1673 Fax
Building 5, Mail Code 568           Patrick.L.Kilroy at nasa.gov
Greenbelt, Maryland  20771          http://patkilroy.com/bpp/
=================================================================

       "A problem well stated is a problem half solved."
                   -Charles F. Kettering