tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30172133936376398012024-03-05T23:39:28.778-08:00Central Nebraska Near Space ProgramThis is the new home for current news and the history of my involvement in Amateur Radio High Altitude Ballooning.
-KCØMWMRoger Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989621605127086636noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017213393637639801.post-74818138838782759102016-05-30T07:11:00.001-07:002016-05-30T07:11:09.701-07:00Archive page and recap of CNNSP-11<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The archive page for CNNSP-11 is available by clicking on the link at the right, under <b>Previous Missions and Information</b> </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or you can click <a href="http://cnnsp.blogspot.com/p/cnnsp-11-14-may-2016.html"><here></a></span></div>
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Roger Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989621605127086636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017213393637639801.post-80366315356808330232016-05-16T05:13:00.006-07:002016-05-16T05:13:42.499-07:00CNNSP-11 *** Photos ***<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A recap of the flight from launch to recovery will be coming in the following days, but I wanted to make the photos available as soon as possible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The GoPro camera took a photo every 5 seconds and recorded video the entire duration of the flight.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> The video will be made available at a later date when I get time to do some editing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span>Roger Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989621605127086636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017213393637639801.post-57365433976717938642016-05-13T16:32:00.000-07:002016-05-13T16:39:56.876-07:00Final Prediction for CNNSP-11 and NSTAR 16-B<div style="text-align: center;">
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Roger Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989621605127086636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017213393637639801.post-13435990516340512012016-05-13T05:00:00.001-07:002016-05-13T05:00:12.149-07:001 Day Forecast for CNNSP-11 / NSTAR 16-B<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Very consistent track predictions all week. Track length is just over 100 miles southeast, with a landing south of Pawnee City, NE. Should be a cool day for a drive with highs in the low 60's. Cloud cover should be much less than predicted earlier this week.</span></div>
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Roger Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989621605127086636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017213393637639801.post-25606075707193370442016-05-12T04:05:00.000-07:002016-05-12T04:05:51.361-07:002 Day Forecast for CNNSP-11 / NSTAR 16-B<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There has been little change in the track prediction and the weather for Saturday's flight. It should be a cool morning, mostly cloudy, northwest wind around 10 mph, and temperature in the 40's with a slight chance of rain at launch time. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brad and Allen from <a href="http://www.w0wwv.org/">ARAN</a> stopped by last night to drop off the APRS Pi-gate they built for use during Saturday's flight so I could run it through a few tests. Worked like a champ.</span></div>
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Roger Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989621605127086636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017213393637639801.post-15785206228801733452016-05-10T20:18:00.001-07:002016-05-12T06:39:31.327-07:00Flight Details for CNNSP-11 on Saturday, 14-May-2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Central Nebraska Near Space Program along with Nebraska Stratospheric Amateur Radio will be launching </span><u style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">two weather balloons</u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Saturday, 14-May-2016 on behalf of the</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Launch Time:</b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 9:15 - 9:30 AM CDT</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Location:</b> East side of Edgerton Explorit Center</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) APRS trackers consisting of GPS, microprocessor, amateur radio transmitters operating on 144.390 MHz and 144.360 MHz</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2) GoPro cameras for in-flight recording of photos and video</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) CW - Morse Code Beacon transmitting "KC0MWM Balloon" about once a minute on 146.565 MHz</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(1) SSTV - Slow Scan Television transmitter on the Martin 1 mode at 443.450 MHz</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In flight monitoring of temperature, relative humidity, and atmospheric pressure data will also be available on one of the APRS signals.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">CNNSP APRS trackers will be <a href="http://aprs.fi/kc0mwm-11" target="_blank">KC0MWM-11</a> and <a href="http://aprs.fi/kc0mwm-12" target="_blank">KC0MWM-12</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">NSTAR APRS trackers will be <a href="http://aprs.fi/n9xtn-11" target="_blank">N9XTN-11</a> and <a href="http://aprs.fi/n9xtn-12" target="_blank">N9XTN-12</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Additional updates can be found on our Twitter feeds</span><br />
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<br />Roger Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989621605127086636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017213393637639801.post-47769069052649036282016-05-09T03:57:00.000-07:002016-05-09T03:57:10.707-07:005 Day Forecast for CNNSP-11<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The current forecast landing prediction for next Saturday's flight. <a href="http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?map.x=208&map.y=89&site=gid&zmx=1&zmy=1#.VzBsCoQrJaT" target="_blank">NWS</a> is calling for highs in the low 60's, partly sunny, a slight chance of rain, and a northerly wind around 8 mph. </span><br />
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Roger Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989621605127086636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017213393637639801.post-1163314505093694842016-05-06T10:23:00.000-07:002016-05-06T10:23:05.800-07:00SSTV (Slow Scan TeleVision) Payload is functional<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Hastings, NE amateur radio club ARAN (Amateur Radio Association of Nebraska) has completed assembly and testing of their Slow Scan Television or SSTV payload. SSTV is a method of sending still images using a narrow bandwidth. A single image will take about two minutes to transmit. The payload will be sending in-flight images to a ground station every four minutes, using the Martin 1 SSTV mode on 443.500 MHz.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks Brad KD0JCP, Allen KB0ASQ, and any others that helped to design and build this payload as well as the APRS Igates that will be used the day of the launch.</span></div>
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Roger Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989621605127086636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017213393637639801.post-26629604878622456792016-04-17T08:47:00.001-07:002016-04-17T08:47:16.784-07:00Payload Rework and Testing<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're just shy of a month away from my first launch in almost six years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been busy reworking, redesigning, and testing the payloads that will be used on the upcoming flight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The launch is in support of the <b><a href="http://www.edgerton.org/" target="_blank">Edgerton Explorit Center</a></b>, in Aurora, NE.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Location: East side of the Edgerton Explorit Center</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Date: Saturday, May 14, 2016</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My friend and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_Radio_High_Altitude_Ballooning" target="_blank">ARHAB</a> mentor, Mark Conner N9XTN from <a href="http://www.nstar.org/" target="_blank"><b>NSTAR</b></a> will also be launching a balloon that day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soft-sided lunch coolers make good payload containers. I started using these back in 2005, one of the many ideas I borrowed from Mark N9XTN.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alinco DJ-S11 2 meter transceiver and battery pack tucked away in foam. Top of the image is the data logger enclosure and its GPS module (upper left).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm waiting for one more device to arrive. Apparently the USPS lost my newest gear somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, so a new one is being shipped and should arrive this week. I'll be trying out a <b><a href="https://www.tracksoar.com/" target="_blank">Tracksoar</a>. </b>A new Open Source APRS tracking module. It was a KickStarter project that got funding earlier this year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we get closer to launch day I'll be updating this site with the latest information as well as <b><a href="https://twitter.com/kc0mwm" target="_blank">my Twitter account</a></b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Rog KC0MWM</span>Roger Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989621605127086636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017213393637639801.post-41192207386057734172016-02-21T09:51:00.000-08:002016-02-21T09:51:16.896-08:00Data Logger Project Complete<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aside from adding some payload string tie points, the data logger payload is now complete for the upcoming launch. Data is logged every 5 seconds and includes time, latitude, longitude, speed, course, date, number of satellites in solution, horizontal dilution of position, altitude, internal temperature, external temperature, relative humidity, absolute atmospheric pressure, and power supply voltage. Special thanks to Roger Frandsen for checking my math on the A/D conversion, and correcting my error(s).</span></div>
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<br />Roger Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989621605127086636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017213393637639801.post-34347930553784803372016-01-15T04:09:00.001-08:002016-01-15T04:09:20.612-08:00New balloon payload(s)<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Working on a new payload for the upcoming balloon launch. Learning to parse GPS data strings on the PICAXE processor and add sensor data to be output to an in-flight data logger, so I don' t have to rely on the APRS telemetry.</span><div>
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Roger Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989621605127086636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017213393637639801.post-34125925727514522252016-01-09T13:58:00.000-08:002016-01-09T17:27:01.485-08:002016 Spring launch!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been corresponding the past several months with <a href="http://www.edgerton.org/educators/staff.htm#ANCHOR2">Dan Glomski</a> from <a href="http://www.edgerton.org/">Edgerton Explorit</a> Center in Aurora, NE about doing a high altitude balloon launch as part of their Super Science Saturday program. Dan and I had a chance to sit down earlier this week and hammer out some of the details.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Saturday, May 14, 2016<br />9:30 am<br />Edgerton Explorit Center</span><br /><br />...more to follow as the launch gets closer.</span><br />
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Roger Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989621605127086636noreply@blogger.com0Edgerton Explorit Center, Aurora, NE 68818, USA40.858514979953355 -97.99556314945220940.858139479953358 -97.996193649452209 40.858890479953352 -97.99493264945221tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3017213393637639801.post-53342046420544762822016-01-09T13:48:00.000-08:002016-02-19T10:03:07.376-08:00Long overdue update<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The old CNNSP website is terribly out of date and I didn't feel like learning yet another piece of web development software. I opted to save some money by doing away with my current web hosting space for that site and move nearly all of the contents over to Google's Blogger. At some time in the next few months before my hosting is up for renewal, I'll point my domain name <a href="http://www.cnnsp.org/">www.cnnsp.org</a> over to this blog, which is <a href="http://cnnsp.blogspot.com/">cnnsp.blogspot.com</a></span><br />
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