[McHUG] Dirty Birds and Zipits

[Rich Mitchell]

I'd say "3 is a crowd", ie. enough to have a meet to eat.  But Pat, Dave or anyone else, let us know if you can join us, too.

CU there.
Rich
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-------------- Original message from "Peter Morton" <mortonph at comcast.net>: -------------- 


> Right now Friday works for me, too. So, 7 p.m. Friday at J&P-Finksburg. 
> 
> -Pete 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Beckman" 
> To: "MicroController Ham User Group - Physical Computing for Ham Radio" 
> 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 12:20 PM 
> Subject: Re: [McHUG] Dirty Birds and Zipits 
> 
> 
> > Hi Rich; 
> > 
> > Friday evening works for me. How about the other guys?? 
> > 
> > 73; Steve, N3SB 
> > 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: "Rich Mitchell" 
> > Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:32:03 
> > To: MicroController Ham User Group - Physical Computing for 
> > HamRadio 
> > Subject: Re: [McHUG] Dirty Birds and Zipits 
> > 
> > Steve, 
> > 
> > I have just found out that I will not be available Sunday afternoon for 
> > dinner. Sorry about that. Maybe Friday night, around 7 at Finksburg NY 
> > Pizza? 
> > 
> > I have given up on the Windows setup for the Zipit. The ext2fsd program 
> > can't seem to see the SD Linux system. It can see regular Linux 
> > extensions on the hard drive. So I created an txfer directory using 
> > OpenZipit, chmod it to 777 and then loaded files from the backup firmware 
> > and also the mouse drivers to it using Kubuntu. Haven't had chance to get 
> > back on Zipit to move files to correct directory and see if it works. 
> > Having fun with command line Linux, though. 
> > 
> > Rich 
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> > 
> > -------------- Original message from n3sb at qis.net: -------------- 
> > 
> > 
> >> Hi Rich; 
> >> 
> >> I'm available Sunday afternoon for dinner. I'd like to hear more about 
> >> the balloon launch at Timonium. I'd also like to make plans for Frank 
> >> K0BRA's visit to Westminster to show us how to use a toaster oven to 
> >> re-flow SMT boards. I've got four Charleston receiver boards, (and 
> >> there may be others???) so we've got some real hardware to try this 
> >> with. 
> >> 
> >> 73; Steve, N3SB 
> >> 
> >> Quoting 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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