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

[Russell Senior]

Here's a nice video on the novel telescopic lens on the normal (i.e.
not the Cirrus Flux Camera) camera on our satellite:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxwhCmO90UQ

s/University of Portland/Portland State University/g

On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 9:50 PM Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:
>
>  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.
> >
> >
> > PLUG is open to everyone and does not tolerate abusive behavior on its
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> >
> > PLUG Page with information about all PLUG events: http://pdxlinux.org/
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> >
> > Michael Dexter
> > PLUG Volunteer