Weather Balloon Launch Sat. 3/14 please RSVP

[Derek Sigler]

Weather looks good.  Predictors have flight distance under 50 miles.   Everyone is healthy.  We are good for balloon launch this Saturday 3/14.  PLEASE RSVP back to me with a headcount if you are planning on attending.  I want to give our lunch place a heads up.  All information below is from the last email and still applies.

Thanks,

-derek

Good news! Testing has been successful. Dustin and I feel comfortable setting the launch date for ******, ******!  Drop me a line if there are any questions.

Below you will find a brief itinerary and a few links.

We will be launching two balloons. With a launch cost of ~$400 we are asking everyone participating to consider making a $10 donation to the designated person at the launch.

A few notes:

It's pretty much an all day (10-6) commitment that involves logistics of traveling and carpooling. If you can't make the whole time we encourage you to wait for a launch when you can. There will be more.

There will be two points to meetup with us and figure out carpools: Arch Reactor or Damiansville, IL. Carpool! Carpool! Carpool! You may even make a new friend.

Bring $5-$10 more in you pocket for contributing to your driver's gas.

Itinerary:

9:30 meetup at Arch Reactor, load up, confirm checklists

10:00 Leave Arch Reactor

10:30 Arrive in Damiansville. If you live in IL, you may want to meetup with us here:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/207+Park+Ln,+Damiansville,+IL+62215/@38.5061055,-89.6217314,712m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x8876718b2592b39b:0xe6a0e23093655a34

12:00 Targeted launch time

After balloons are out of sight we head to Nashville,IL and eat lunch til the balloon(s) burst.

From 1:30 to 6ish, depending upon success:

Head out to find balloons in as few cars as possible.

Return to Arch Reactor to review video and photos.

Links:

The pop at 104k feet from our most successful flight:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chankster/8195638262/

About 7 days out you can start checking weather balloon predictors like this:

http://predict.habhub.org

with these parameters: 38.505450, -89.622043 100 launch altitude, 18:00 UTC Feb.15th, 25,000 m burst altitude. 5 m for up and down.

Dustin has blogged about the project:

http://mayfieldjones.com/?page_id=718

AR4 (Derek) Balloon Tracker:

http://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=12&call=a%2FKD0PFM-11&timerange=3600&tail=3600

HAB-0 (Dustin) Balloon Tracker:

http://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=12&call=a%2FKE0BVB-11&timerange=3600&tail=3600

 

[Tom Blevins]

I am coming.
-Tom

[George Fetters]

I'll be there!

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[Xsfx2000]

I'm in. Got a small car though.

[Morganism]

I am planning on coming. I will volunteer to drive, but have a small car.

On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 4:01:18 PM UTC-5, Derek wrote:

> 12:00 Targeted launch timeAfter balloons are out of sight we head to Nashville,IL and eat lunch til the balloon(s) burst.

[colleenf...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 4:01:18 PM UTC-5, Derek wrote:

> 12:00 Targeted launch timeAfter balloons are out of sight we head to Nashville,IL and eat lunch til the balloon(s) burst.

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>
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> From 1:30 to 6ish, depending upon success:Head out to find balloons in as few cars as possible.
> Return to Arch Reactor to review video and photos.
>
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> Links:
> The pop at 104k feet from our most successful flight:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/chankster/8195638262/
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> About 7 days out you can start checking weather balloon predictors like this:
> http://predict.habhub.org
>
> with these parameters: 38.505450, -89.622043 100 launch altitude,
> 18:00 UTC Feb.15th, 25,000 m burst altitude. 5 m for up and down.
>
>
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> Dustin has blogged about the project:
> http://mayfieldjones.com/?page_id=718
>
>
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> AR4 (Derek) Balloon Tracker:
> http://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=12&call=a%2FKD0PFM-11&timerange=3600&tail=3600
>
>
>
> HAB-0 (Dustin) Balloon Tracker:
> http://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=12&call=a%2FKE0BVB-11&timerange=3600&tail=3600
>  

I'll be there!

[nfolken]

Count me in. I'll meet at AR for carpooling

[Kamikaze Joe]

I'd like to go as well.

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On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:08 AM, nfolken <niels...@gmail.com> wrote:

Count me in. I'll meet at AR for carpooling

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[nfolken]

Bah, work came up. Count me out. Looking forward to some awesome videos

[Tom Blevins]

I am coming and now my son Elijah is also coming.

> 12:00 Targeted launch timeAfter balloons are out of sight we head to Nashville,IL and eat lunch til the balloon(s) burst.

[Derek Sigler]

Cool.  How old is he? He may be able to fit in my 3rd row with Harlan.

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[Xsfx2000]

Still in, the thread split...

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[George Fetters]

What time are we meeting at arch reactor.

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[nfolken]

Actually, I think I'll make the launch, but I'll have to head out right after.

[Frank Kallal]

I don't recall seeing why the Move all the way out to Damiansville.  Seems a a decence distance out?

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 8:29 PM, nfolken <niels...@gmail.com> wrote:

Actually, I think I'll make the launch, but I'll have to head out right after.

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[Travis Megee]

We've always launched there to be far enough away from the airport

Travis

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[derek...@yahoo.com]

9:30 am Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

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[derek...@yahoo.com]

Faa says you have to be 30 nautical miles from Lambert. We're like 30.1 in Damiansville.

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[Colleen Forrest]

On my way up, about 5 min out

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[Robert Kleeschulte]

Good Luck with the balloons. Lot more fun that what I'm doing today. 

2 floor guard duty at a bar for the St. Patricks day parade. A windowless room and I watch the stairs... Still get a few bucks, food and beer. 

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So, how did it go?

[Morganism]

Thank you Derek and Dustin,

I had a great time! Was very cool. The highest I saw on the APRS was 109,113 feet. Can wait to see the video.

On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 4:01:18 PM UTC-5, Derek wrote:

[Derek Sigler]

We all had a great time.  HAB01 made it over 109k feet!  Attached is a peak photo and the APRS path.  Dustin is still stiching all the video.  His burst clip is great!  The other balloon had a transmitter failure about 3 minutes after flight.  We're currently monitoring for pings from the onboard android device.

Already have plenty of ideas for the next flight!  Including the addition of live picture transmissions.

-derek

[annbo...@gmail.com]

Wow - great pic! Was the recovery smooth?

Are you planning a launch at the GPSL in June? WE are going to share a balloon with someone at GPSL and then we want to do a launch down in Farmington in July. Would love some help with tracking... A few of us got licenses but I've been too chicken to launch. Our projected landing site is pretty rural. I also would like to have the help of someone experienced with Hydrogen.

Congrats on the successful launch!!

Ann

[Derek Sigler]

Video is out:

Version 1.0 (raw) Spike in Space: HAB_0 w/ Arch Reactor and Truman State University Alumni

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[Deech]

I hate to admit how much I laughed when the balloon popped and Spike was all "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"

But then he fell off and I was sad.

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[Chris Weiss]

it was really impressive how long spiked stayed on.  long live spike!

[Ann]

Great video!!

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it was really impressive how long spiked stayed on.  long live spike!

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