[McHUG] Meet to Eat and now Repeat

[Peter Morton]

Yeah.  I really enjoyed our "meet-to-eat" Friday, despite the horrid 
horology, zany Zipits, and terrible tiramisu.

-Pete, W3GVX


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Mitchell" <geobra at att.net>
To: "McHUG Reflector" <mchug at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 10:18 AM
Subject: [McHUG] Meet to Eat and now Repeat


> Gentlemen,
>
> We had a good "meet to eat" Friday evening.  Especially now that my Zipit 
> is able to connect to Yahoo via WiFi.  Haven't figured out how to type in 
> a URL to get to other sites, but Yahoo was an icon.
>
> Pete brought up the fact that the Timonium Hamfest "Dirty Bird" telemetry 
> was much more difficult to copy than the telemetry from our Hamfest in 
> October.  The thought was that for windy conditions we might need to 
> stabilize the payload more.  Saturday I was musing over that observation 
> from a "horological" perspective and it hit me why this happened. 
> Initially clocks were regulated by pendulums.  If they ran to slow you 
> would shorten the rod of the pendulum and lengthen it to slow down the 
> clock.  In our launch at Timonium we had a very short string between the 
> balloon and the payload.  At Westminster the string was at least twice as 
> long.  So its period of oscillation would have been much longer.  A longer 
> string should solve our problem.
>
> We also discussed the Robotfest that Steve mentions in his note from 
> earlier today.  We have the opportunity to exhibit at Jim Cross' table. 
> This is where we really need to get the Arduino involved.  The plan is to 
> design and build a shield that would couple to the output from an HT, 
> isolate the tone using the LMC567, translate it using Steve's Morse 
> reading program and put it out to an LCD and also to EEPROM.
>
> Good stuff seems to be happening on the Charleston front.  We need to come 
> up with a compatible date to learn how K0BRA does his toaster oven 
> soldering.
>
> I guess these are sort of minutes of our "meet to eat" but I won't go into 
> the teramisu we had for desert.
>
> Rich
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