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TAPR APRS Special Interest Group Digest for Tuesday, July 15, 2003.
1. Re: Balloon over WV heading East! - for Bob B.
2. Re: Balloon over WV heading East!
3. Re: Balloon over WV heading East!
4. Re: Balloon over WV heading East!
5. Re: Balloon over WV heading East!
6. New D-7 question
7. Re: New D-7 question
8. Re: Balloon over WV heading East
9. Balloon update FW: More on your baloon
10. Re: Balloon
11. List problems?
12. Re: List problems?
13. Re: Balloon
14. PSR deadline reminder
15. 'disposable' 2-meter radios?
16. Re: Balloon over WV heading East!
17. RE: 'disposable' 2-meter radios?
18. Balloon update
19. FW: Balloon update
20. Re: Balloon update
21. RE: Balloon update
22. RE: 'disposable' 2-meter radios?
23. RE: 'disposable' 2-meter radios?
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Subject: Re: Balloon over WV heading East! - for Bob B.
From: KC7ZRU - Tate <kc7zru@arrl.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 21:47:38 -0600
X-Message-Number: 1
I've gathered what I recieved here as well as a snapshot with the last
recieved posit report from the Balloon.
"Uncle Bob" being 'blind' currently - thought this may be of help.
Feel free to do what you may with this
73
--
"The Dungeon" online at http://go.to/kc7zru
Casper, WY | CARC Repeater
DN62tt | 146.940-
http://www.trib.com/~carc
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Subject: Re: Balloon over WV heading East!
From: "Tim Cunningham" <tim_cunningham@mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:07:24 -0500
X-Message-Number: 2
Indeed, You are correct about the rugged country.
Having lived near that area most of my early life, that is not an area you
want to be wandering around in the dark unless you are experienced and very
familiar with the area and its wildlife. Wildlife can come in various forms
and some carrying ammo...
Holly River State Park is a great place to visit just Northeast of the
possible landing area.
It appears it may have landed in the National Radio Quiet Zone.
Make sure you contact any land owners before trespassing in that area.
If somebody can get a beacon and the lat/lon coordinates before the
batteries expire it would be extremely helpful provided it is still working
after the landing. There is NO APRS activity in that particular area.
Tim - N8DEU
Huntsville, Alabama
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Subject: Re: Balloon over WV heading East!
From: "Scott Miller" <scott@home.miller.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:59:20 -0700
X-Message-Number: 3
I'm working on some graphics to show the landing area... here's an AVI
animation circling around the site (divx codec required):
http://n1vg.net/balloon-rotate.avi (1 meg). Note the little spiral it does
on the way in. Sorry, no DOQQ or DRG overlay yet... I do have a 1-meter
MrSID color infrared DOQQ of the area at http://n1vg.net/samp_sw.zip (7
megs) but my terrain visualization program doesn't do MrSID. Haven't fired
up ArcView to try it yet.
It looks like the last transmission was about 400 M AGL and it was coming in
fast, so it might not be totally hopeless. I'll see if I can extend the
descent slope and see where it intersects the ground to serve as a center
point for the search area. Close enough for a geocache entry, anyway. =]
Scott
N1VG
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Subject: Re: Balloon over WV heading East!
From: "Scott Miller" <scott@home.miller.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:25:52 -0700
X-Message-Number: 4
Ok, got the DOQQ overlay to work right. More or less. I think the
projection's a bit off - the river seems to slop up the sides of the valley
a little. The animation will be up at http://n1vg.net/balloon-rotate2.avi
when it's done rendering. Or you can fly through the VRML version at
http://n1vg.net/crashsite.wrl. (Isn't insomnia great?)
If you need a VRML browser, I recommend Cortona
(http://www.parallelgraphics.com/products/cortona/). Seems to work better
than Cosmo unless you've got an SGI.
Scott
N1VG
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Subject: Re: Balloon over WV heading East!
From: "Scott Miller" <scott@home.miller.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:52:26 -0700
X-Message-Number: 5
Ok, one more... the river's still a bit off, and the timing is probably
nowhere near correct, but here's a view from the balloon's perspective.
2.8 megs, DiVX codec again. Sorry, but the original was over 30 megs and
I've only got 384 kbps bandwidth here!
http://n1vg.net/flyalong.avi
Makes me want to skip work and break out the paraglider. =]
Scott
N1VG
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Subject: New D-7 question
From: John Kraus <flyfisher452@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:28:39 -0400
X-Message-Number: 6
I just got a new D-7 and I have figured out most of the functions but I am
baffled as to how to select one of the 3 posits and / or status text
buffers. I can do it with the MCP program but I can't seem to do it using
the radio buttons. I feel certain that there must be a way and no doubt it
will be simple.
I could probably figure it out given enough time but I am working 12 hour
shifts and I just want to go to bed and maybe wake up to find an answer. :)
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Subject: Re: New D-7 question
From: WA8LMF2@aol.com
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:42:33 EDT
X-Message-Number: 7
In a message dated 7/15/2003 6:32:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
flyfisher452@cox.net writes:
>I just got a new D-7 and I have figured out most of the functions but I am
>baffled as to how to select one of the 3 posits and / or status text
>buffers. I can do it with the MCP program but I can't seem to do it using
>the radio buttons. I feel certain that there must be a way and no doubt it
>will be simple.
That had me baffled too for a while. It's so obvious that it's not evident
at all! Note that the selected posit buffer is marked by a " * ". Scroll
through the the lat/long sets until the one you want is showing. then
press the * key on the keypad to mark it with the "*". Then OK or ESC from
the position menu.
Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com
Home Page: http://wa8lmf.com
Ham Radio/Mobile SSTV page: http://members.aol.com/wa8lmf/ham
APRS Stuff
http://members.aol.com/wa8lmf/aprs
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Subject: Re: Balloon over WV heading East
From: "Curt Mills, WE7U" <hacker@tc.fluke.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 08:47:10 -0700 (PDT)
X-Message-Number: 8
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, vic wrote:
>12 miles northeast of Gassaway, WV. dropping fast at about 45 to 64 mph
Balloon dropping fast over Gassaway? Something kind'a funny about
that...
--
Curt Mills, WE7U hacker_NO_SPAM_@tc.fluke.com
Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin
"Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math!"
"Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates!" -- WE7U
"The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!"
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Subject: Balloon update FW: More on your baloon
From: "Rochte, Robert" <rrochte@gpacademy.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:20:43 -0400
X-Message-Number: 9
The message below is from Bruce, W8AOK, who lives about 10 miles from the
probably touch-down site. I was searching on QRZ last night for folks who
lived nearby and emailed him asking for help. I'm guessing that he's
hearing my status beacon every 5-6 minutes (that's about the right timing).
Any suggestions that I could pass along to him to help locate it? I've
already forwarded a few of the detailed maps and other things that have
been posted here.
Thanks.
-R
-----Original Message-----
From: W8AOK - Bruce [mailto:w8aok@mountain.net]
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 2:03 PM
To: Rochte, Robert
Subject: More on your baloon
Robert,
I just got in and received all four of your posts from this morning. As of
now (1:56 EDT), there is a packet burst on 144.490-MHz every 5 or so
minutes, but it's very light so I'm going to head in that direction.
There's a storm moving in now, but I'll see what I can see (so to speak).
I put this together quickly:
http://members.citynet.net/bcressler/weather_overlay.html ... it includes an
overlay from last night at 6:49 PM EDT. I had captured the radar image from
NWS's sight to send to a friend in Webster Springs. I use the NWS low radar
images to see what band conditions may be like on HF, so I just happened to
have it handy having sent it via e-mail last night. You'll be able to see a
couple a big boomer cells and associated scatter that hung in there until at
least 10:00 PM EDT as I was watching it while working 40-Meters. I have to
get going, so there isn't much time for explaining my "mark-up" on that
page.
I'll let you know what I find, but I suspect I'm going to get rained out.
73
Bruce - W8AOK
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