[McHUG] Dirty Birds and Zipits

[Rich Mitchell]

Guys,

We did our balloon thing yesterday at the hamfest.  I am amazed at how the little PICetSat Lite performs.  And this one had the balloon nozzle sealed with duct tape.  With the wind it was crazy trying to launch it.  We listened until the QRN got too bad.  I think we gave up somewhere in the 70s frame count.  Up until the end the Dirty Bird kept rising, though possibly we detected a fall - hard to tell with the QRN.  I think the listenable window was much shorter than in October because of the wind - I'm sure the lower winds really moved it along at a good rate.  I did notice some change in the voltage readings which suggests that our approach to voltage monitoring is working.  
Pat, do you have some of the numbers and an educated guess at what altitude we reached?  Pete, have you thawed out yet?

On the Zippit side,  I have the hacked image working on the device, marginally.  The problem is that I am trying to do all the setup with a Windows PC.  Windows can't read the image on the SD once you have physdisked it.  Supposedly using the ext2 file system driver it can.  So far I have tried to figure out how to use the ext2 program, but XP keeps wanting to format the drive.  I don't dare use X windows until I get the mouse driver installed.  Otherwise you are dead in the water with a nice image on the screen.

Would Sunday 5 pm be a bad time for a meet to eat, being that it's Easter and all?

Rich

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