[K3PZN-List] Payload Flight, SMT, VE, HF

Curt Milton wb8yyy at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 25 09:17:46 EDT 2010 

Stu -- nice report on your tracking!  Definitely a tracking feat down to 1000 
feet many miles away!  I caught some of the activity on the repeater after 
church -- maybe some other tracking reports will emerge via email.  


I can imagine this thing landing near the gate, or in the middle of an exercise 
and getting an interesting reaction -- of course APG is a very huge place - so 
most likely it fell without fanfare.  


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Nice that we can do more than buying and selling on hamfest day! (of course the 
balance is not tieing up too many of our manpower resources).   I saw the 
well-equipped (well they were lacking cookie sheets to better retain the 
components!) for SMT assembly.  


Lot's of nice propagation is happening on 15 and 10m.  I have a little 2 element 
beam (MA5B) that a friend provided up in the air.  I was skeptical that it would 
make a difference over my vertical (that is a similar design), but often 2 
elements is better than one.  I even worked a guy in Scotland using the same 
antenna (and rig) as I was using!  


I do have some interesting filter shape comparisons between my K2's analog 
(varactor tuned xtal) and my other rig's DSP filters.  The DSP filters are more 
square, but the analog filters also work.  This data is taken by tuning the 
receiver to only noise on the input, routing audio to a soundcard, and using a 
simple freeware program to sample and process the data.  


73 Curt

 
----- Original Message ----
From: Stu Benner <w3stu at arrl.net>
To: Carroll County Amateur Radio Club <k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Mon, October 25, 2010 8:21:48 AM
Subject: Re: [K3PZN-List] Youthful Hams in VA Blue Ridge

As for where the balloon went, my best estimate on the landing site is just
on the North edge of Aberdeen Proving Grounds, possibly in the nearby
Chesapeake Bay. This is based on the last known triangulated position
(between Bel Air and Aberdeen) at 1447 and an average ground speed of about
23.4 mph. (Note: the last full frame of telemetry that I collected was at
1508:02 at which time the balloon telemetry indicated an altitude of about
1000 feet; signal was lost 40 seconds later.)

Regards,
Stu (W3STU).

-----Original Message-----
From: Curt Milton [mailto:wb8yyy at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 9:35 PM
To: Carroll County Amateur Radio Club
Subject: [K3PZN-List] Youthful Hams in VA Blue Ridge

I found this interesting article on youthful hams down in Frank's neck of
the 
woods (an area I am familiar with do to family relations down there):

http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/264867  -- wow 3 high schools with
ham 
clubs!  maybe more than have survived in the entire state of MD (my school
had a 
club in Ohio but that was a few years ago, when the TR-4C was a new rig).  


Also I heard a lot of traffic on the repeater associated with a later-than-I

expected balloon flight ... so I can imagine a report on the delay (??) and
I am 
curious how many trackers participated (on the repeater anyway), and of
course 
conjecture on where this thing went.  


73 Curt




----- Original Message ----
From: frank <k4hoa at ntelos.net>
To: Carroll County Amateur Radio Club <k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sun, September 26, 2010 12:32:50 PM
Subject: Re: [K3PZN-List] FW: [FARC] Tower Climbing

Tower work is for the young fellas! put up my own in the early 90's. 50 feet

is my limit!  but , have fun with it and be safe.

73 frank k4hoa

ps I  have ladder , 30 ft heavy duty, will handle 300 lbs, you are welcome 
to use, however it's in franklin county, va.










----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Henyon" <michael at henyon.com>
To: "'Carroll County Amateur Radio Club'" <k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: [K3PZN-List] FW: [FARC] Tower Climbing


>I have one you can use Bill, I live in mt airy
> Mike
> KB3JIY
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: k3pzn-list-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:k3pzn-list-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
> wrstevenson at verizon.net
> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 9:00 PM
> To: (RADIO CLUB) CCARC-LIST
> Subject: Re: [K3PZN-List] FW: [FARC] Tower Climbing
>
> Anyone out there have an extension ladder I could borrow.  I am working on
> my antenna,  My ladder is only 13' and  I need a ladder that will do 20
> feet.  Thanks in advance.
>
> Bill Stevenson
> W2EGL
>
>
> From: John Hart
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 5:40 PM
> To: (RADIO CLUB) CCARC-LIST
> Subject: [K3PZN-List] FW: [FARC] Tower Climbing
>
>
>
> For all of you Tower Climbers out there,
>
> I used to do some of this but only up to about 400 feet (top of tower) 
> back
> in the 1960s.  You couldn't get me up on a 40 foot tower now.  The video 
> is
> very interesting wears you out just looking at it.
>
> John, K3KWO
>
>
>> From: AGarst7259 at aol.com
>> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:03:31 -0400
>> To: farc at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: [FARC] Tower Climbing
>>
>>
>> Not for me but thought some of you might want to try this. KB3OMO Allen
>> _http://video.yahoo.com/network/101149635?v=8244494&l=5144241_
>> (http://video.yahoo.com/network/101149635?v=8244494&l=5144241)
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