On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 08:10:57 PM Jimmy Carter wrote: > June 4th sounds great for me. > > So far as the high altitude balloon goes: > > tl;dr: a month or so. > > We're hesitating on choosing a date for this until we know that our > telemetry is working flawlessly. It kinda bit us in the butt on our last > flight. That being said it shouldn't be too long before enough of our > systems are a "GO" that we choose a date and can answer that question > better. > > When w8upd.org is up we have some reading material on the page from our > last launch as well as audio from the cross band repeater that we flew > on it.
Cool. I'd like to maybe include an RPI, a USB camera, and a small battery to power it for a period of time, or something similar. > > KG4SGP - Jim > > On 05/22/2013 07:43 PM, Torrie Fischer wrote: > > On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 07:25:01 PM Jimmy Carter wrote: > >> I would probably say at least every two weeks. Every week would be > >> preferable. Something like an hour or an hour and a half long talk. The > >> technician test (first license) isn't incredibly technical with most of > >> the > >> questions geared toward safety and the like. The hardest thing would > >> probably be recognizing frequency allocations. > >> > >> Should we start a new thread to gauge interest? Or have an interest > >> meeting/presentation/demonstration some night? > > > > Lets have an interest meeting. Wanna do it two tuesdays from now on the > > 4th?> > >> W8UPD (U of A's ham club) just got done launching a high altitude balloon > >> and are planning to do another sometime this summer. That could be fun to > >> talk about. > > > > That'd be super excellent to have. > > > >> PS: if anyone wants to pre-assemble something under 2lbs to go in the > >> balloon payload (understanding its not guaranteed to come back) We will > >> give you a free ride to near space (about 90,000-100,000ft). > > > > What kind of time do we have to do this? > > > >> Torrie Fischer <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 07:07:25 PM Jimmy Carter wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> If there is enough interest I'd be happy to help teach the course. > >>> > >>> Ham radio > >>> is a fun hobby that complements hacking and hacker spaces very nicely. > >>> > >>> How would you want to do it? Weekly? Monthly? > >>> > >>>> I've read about the HSMM using off the shelf wifi equipment but have > >>> > >>> never > >>> seen one running. Its cool stuff though. > >>> > >>>> KG4SGP - Jim > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Torrie Fischer <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 06:38:41 PM Justin Herman wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Might be really cool to setup a node at synhak. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Torrie Fischer <[email protected]> > >>> > >>> wrote: > >>>> On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 04:57:47 PM Justin Herman wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Anyone ever do anything with this? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> http://hsmm-mesh.org[1]/ > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -------------------- > >>>> > >>>> http://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss[2] > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -------------------- > >>>> > >>>> _http://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_ > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -------------------- > >>>> > >>>> _http://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_ > >>>> > >>>> -------------------- > >>>> > >>>> _http://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_ > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -------- > >>>> [1] http://hsmm-mesh.org > >>>> [2] http://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Discuss mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
