[PPRAANet] Fw: [COham] High School High Altitude Balloon Launch

[NØABC -- Dennis]

All,

I am just forwarding this along to the club as well as its members.

I would like to suggest that possibly the club could help out in this 
endeavor, and that perhaps some of the members might also wish to 
individually. Skyler has presented a clear and concise proposal, and I think 
that gaining assistance for this could help promote more interest in ham 
radio by the younger generation (i.e. the more they are doing, the more 
visibility they will be giving our hobby and service).

73

Dennis
NØABC


-----Original Message----- 
From: Skyler F
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2015 7:06 PM
To: Colorado Ham
Subject: [COham] High School High Altitude Balloon Launch

Hi, its Skyler Fennell KD0WHB, I am a Senior in High School, and started
the Colorado Amateur Satellite net (amsatnet.info).

This year, I have started an Amateur Radio club at my School (Denver School
of the Arts Amateur Radio Club , KE0FXH) , and we have decided we want to
build a payload for the Edge of Space Sciences launch in *February of 2016.*

We plan on performing an Amateur Radio experiment to either test RF
propagation at the elevation or send data packets of live information or
both. Although I have plenty of parts laying around for transmitting and
receiving RF signals, and processors like the Arudino or raspberry pi, for
the live data, the trip will cost us $350 to get a payload on the 100,000
foot balloon launch.

This Amateur Radio club is almost entirely student funded, and I have
already brought in stuff for a Fox Hunt, the construction of an AllStar/
EchoLink repeater, and now we are building a Morse code transceiver. The
next project will be the Balloon payload, given that we get the funds for
the Launch.

I would greatly appreciate if anybody would be willing to donate a bit to
the club for support of the High Altitude Balloon Launch. I believe this
launch will inspire many students to learn about Science and Technology,
and inspire them to get a ham license.

Here is a donation link. The video shows a payload, which I helped design
for the STEM school in highlands ranch, Colorado, a sound propagation
experiment:

https://www.gofundme.com/eu985jy4

Our club contains 5 Licensed amateurs so far, and we are recruiting more.
We meet during lunch hour in one of the Science rooms.

73, and Thanks from

Skyler Fennell KD0WHB - President, Founder, Trusty of the club Call
Jordan Walters KD0MLV - Co-founder
Ian Tompkins KE0GET
Christopher Banchero - KE0DTG
Dong Lee - KD0ZOE
Other Students in the club, who plan on soon getting their ham license.
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