March Launch

[John Marvin]

Wow, I also bought a Telemetrum. It’s a great product. I kept hoping that Jim Amos would finish his MPAC (not sure of spelling) system, but I think that will probably never happen.

We’re going to need a club flag system like they have at RC flying clubs to make sure we don’t stomp on each others frequencies.

I’ll also highly recommend hamtestonline. I swear that this must be a plot by Bdale to get all of us “someday I’ll get my ham license” folks to actually do it. The problem is that I’m now getting distracted from rocket building and am instead building a HF SDR radio (and stringing an HF antenna and considering buying an antenna tuner, then a linear amp — uh-oh this hobby is just as expensive as rocketry!).

The funny thing with Saturday’s launch was that I originally did not plan to attend it, since I didn’t really have any rockets ready. But the weather seemed so nice that I didn’t want to stay in, so I went downstairs and found some of my older model rockets that I could use for the alphabet competition. I then went to Hobby Lobby to buy estes motors and didn’t get out to the site until about 12:30. I didn’t bother to look at wind reports, but I was starting to notice the trees blowing the further east of Ault that I drove. Still it didn’t look that bad, and since I was driving in the direction of the wind it didn’t seem that bad (driving back was a different story). Anyway, I got to the site and got out of the car to open the fence and realized there was no way anyone was launching rockets in this wind. I pulled up to the site and of course no one was there. The wind was so bad it was hard to close the car door again. Oh well, hopefully April will work out.

[Kevin OslerParticipant]

Yeah, I did the same thing about 30 minutes after you did. With all the hams in the club now, we should figure out a frequency we can give regular launch updates on while people are driving in. Better yet, and maybe in addition, a way to update the website from the launch. I have left Longmont on really bad looking days and its perfect up there, and also had it perfect in Longmont and terrible up there.

[BEAR]

With the ability to use T-mobile and Verizon 3G at both sites and with Droid phones, (that is what I have so I am familiar with its capabilities) I guess we could log on to this site from our phones and place updates on the forums. Would that work or does it need to be on the home page? Another way would be to call someone who you think is at the site, like Steve (shunt1) did with me and get an update. Then they/you could post it in the forums, unless there is a way we could post it to the home page from our phones with out being the keeper of the web.

[Steve Huntwork]

With smart phones like the Droid (since that did work), this should be easy to do with a bulk phone text message to all local members.

I need to obtain a list of all cell phone numbers of those who want to be on the launch notification list.

Please send your private numbers to my personal email:

huntworksteve@gmail.com

Step by step, we will figure out how to make this darn technology work for us. 😉

[Kevin OslerParticipant]

Awesome!

Its on its way to you as a PM and as an email…

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