[PLUG] TONIGHT! PLUG: Russell's Excellent High Altitude Balloon Adventure

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Fri Oct 8 04:50:58 UTC 2021


 As promised, here are my slides from the talk (with links):

  https://personaltelco.net/~russell/plug-talk-2021-10-07.pdf

On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 8:57 AM Michael Dexter <dexter at pdxlinux.org> wrote:
>
> Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement
>
> Who: Russell Senior
> What: Russell's Excellent High Altitude Balloon Adventure
> Where: https://meet.jit.si/pdxlinux
> When: Thursday, October 7th, 2021 at 7pm
> Why: The pursuit of technology freedom
>
> Russell volunteers with the Portland State Aerospace Society's (PSAS)
> OreSat program as an Industry Advisor. PSAS is a rocket club at
> Portland State University. The OreSat program works towards having
> small interactive satellites put into orbit by friendly launch
> services. OreSat currently consists of three small satellites based on
> a common design, the first one is due to launch in January. Russell's
> role is to help out with a system called dxwifi, a long distance
> S-band communication link. The goal is for ground-based student groups
> around the state to receive live video broadcast from orbit as the
> satellite passes overhead. Earlier this year, a high school student
> applied and got our satellite a ride on a high altitude balloon
> through a NASA program. One of the goals was to capture wifi data
> being transmitted by the payload. Because of the distances involved,
> this requires aiming a directional antenna at the balloon. This talk
> will tell the story of how Russell waded his way towards a solution
> using math, some hand tools, open-source software and some ingenuity.
>
> About Russell:
>
> Russell has been a Linux user since 1992. He worked for a few decades
> doing data management, programming, and analysis for a small
> scientific consulting firm. Since 2005 he has been deeply involved in
> the Personal Telco Project and trying to bring about
> telecommunications policy in the users interests, while also hacking
> on router firmware. Since 2018, he's been involved in an effort to
> bring at-cost fiber infrastructure to the Portland metro area,
> Municipal Broadband PDX.
>
>
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>
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>
> Michael Dexter
> PLUG Volunteer



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