http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/ Arizona Near Space Research (ANSR) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:53:55 GMT Jack Crabtree http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2978 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2978 The Pima College team has a new home page for ASCEND! flights: http://nw.pima.edu/dmeeks/ascend/ Images and info from the most recent flight are posted at: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:50:43 GMT Jack Crabtree http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2977 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2977 Hi Mike! Yes, we did have problems but the flight was great and we had a quick recovery. Tale a look at a couple of the pix. 73 de Jack, W7JLC -- this was my Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:57:33 GMT Mike Manes http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2976 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2976 Bummer on the payload brokes. Guess Murphy was having a ball with ANSR this weekend :=P. 73 de Mike W5VSI CTO EOSS ... -- Mike Manes mrmanes@... Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:49:09 GMT Jack Crabtree http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2975 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2975 We had a couple of anomalies on ANSR-52. The cross-band repeater keyed up but there was no audio on the downlink. This was the first time we had such a failure Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:45:21 GMT Jack Crabtree http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2974 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2974 Good to hear from you Paul and congrats on the new name, ASCENT. Yes the rancher was a blessing. He literally turned his ranch house and gorgeous grounds over Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:59:04 GMT Paul Finch http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2973 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2973 Hello, Good to hear that you had a good flight and better news that the Rancher was as interested in the recover as you guys were. I hope that when our club Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:45:30 GMT George Helser http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2972 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2972 Jack & all, Nice job launching, tracking and recovering ANSR-52! We had some equipment problems but we had enough experience to work around them. Thanks to Joe Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:49:42 GMT w7jlc http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2971 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2971 Good Morning -- Weather looks great and surface winds are supposed to be less than 4 mph from the SE. Looks like a weak front coming through later this morning Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:13:29 GMT w7jlc http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2970 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2970 We just finished up the pre-flight readiness meeting and all systems are go. Winds have died down a bit and it should be a great flight. See Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:42:44 GMT Joe Crawford http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2969 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2969 Hi Everyone, Prediction has shortened some. Slightly slower winds combined with a promise of a generous fill should give us a good landing North of the town Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:03:58 GMT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2968 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2968 Reminder from: Ballooning Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/cal ASCEND! Space Grant flight Saturday November 21, 2009 8:00 am - 12:00 pm Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:38:09 GMT George Helser http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2967 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2967 Jack, A student is fine. Thanks. George To: Ballooning@yahoogroups.com From: jscra@... Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:53:44 -0700 Subject: Re: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:54:13 GMT Jack Crabtree http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2966 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2966 George, I am thinking of having you run ahead as a route finder in front of the student caravan. I have asked Scott and Bryson (his rider) to pre deploy in Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:51:51 GMT George Helser http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2965 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2965 I am seeking a copilot on ANSR-52 this Saturday. I need someone to ride with me to navigate and track the flight on my laptop (running UI-View). Regards, Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:55:48 GMT BASE http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2964 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ballooning/message/2964 Dear Mike, I dug a little deeper and found the APRS record for the flight.  The beacon was KB9ZNZ-2 (as noted on the ARHAB website).  It flew again on