[K3PZN-List] SimSat-4 Launch Status on Monday 9/28

[Kilroy, Patrick L. (GSFC-5680)]

http://simsat.net

HEY EVERYBODY!  

The SimSat-4 high-altitude balloon experiment 
launch was scrubbed this past Saturday morning 
due to weather.  It was rescheduled to this 
coming Saturday morning, October 3.  

It features the PICetSat II module, flying 
a microcontroller similar to that originally 
designed by our own Rich Mitchell N3III and 
Steve Beckman N3SB.  

You are invited to check it out!  

For more insight on the mission or the scrub, 
go to http://simsat.net under SimSat-4.  

You can participate from either your home QTH, 
the K3PZN club station, one of the remote ground 
stations (either Laurel, Md. or Bethesda, Md.) 
or at the launch site in Carroll County.  Your 
choice.  There is a list of volunteer positions 
on the SimSat-4 web page.  Contact me for more 
information.  

A member from the Westminster Astronomical Society 
was on hand this past Saturday to lend some tracking 
support!  See http://www.westminsterastro.org/

There's room for all, including you!  

Be sure to at least listen to the WA3NAN repeater 
on 146.835 MHz (or the K3PZN/R on 145.410 MHz as 
a back up) between 8:00 and 11:00 A.M. on Saturday 
to hear the fun.  

Best 73,

Pat Kilroy, N8PK
SimSat flight director 
and fellow CCARC member

Phone: 301-286-1984