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

[Chuck Hast]

Russell,
Have you thought about amateur radio gear on board these devices?
I am betting you could get a lot of info from AMSAT, though their main
gig is satellites.

Here just south of me down in TX a group of amateurs launched a radio
equipped balloon, had a repeater, gps and a video feed from an on board
camera along with some other instrumentation. I was going to try to work
the repeater but had to do real work and missed the balloon flight.

They were planning another launch on the 8th but appears it got delayed.

I can send you info on what they are doing if you are interested.

On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 11:51 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/
> > Follow PLUG on Twitter: http://twitter.com/pdxlinux
> >
> > Michael Dexter
> > PLUG Volunteer
>


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