Skyler, What a terrific project! Keep us informed on the mission. I hope everyone will chip in a few dollars to help your club out. 73, -james W5AOO
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 19:00:58 -0700 From: Skyler Felectricity440@gmail.com To:"amsat-bb@amsat.org" amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] High School High Altitude Balloon Launch Message-ID: CAJNyT08mhvJ8n7z1ak=UsmXEZF_00KSNiWbnJAPnigoeXu9muA@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Hi, its Skyler Fennell KD0WHB, I am a Senior in High School, and started the Colorado Amateur Satellite net (amsatnet.info).
This year, I have started an Amateur Radio club at my School (Denver School of the Arts Amateur Radio Club , KE0FXH) , and we have decided we want to build a payload for the Edge of Space Sciences launch in *February of 2016.*
We plan on performing an Amateur Radio experiment to either test RF propagation at the elevation or send data packets of live information or both. Although I have plenty of parts laying around for transmitting and receiving RF signals, and processors like the Arudino or raspberry pi, for the live data, the trip will cost us $350 to get a payload on the 100,000 foot balloon launch.
This Amateur Radio club is almost entirely student funded, and I have already brought in stuff for a Fox Hunt, the construction of an AllStar/ EchoLink repeater, and now we are building a Morse code transceiver. The next project will be the Balloon payload, given that we get the funds for the Launch.
I would greatly appreciate if anybody would be willing to donate a bit to the club for support of the High Altitude Balloon Launch. I believe this launch will inspire many students to learn about Science and Technology, and inspire them to get a ham license.
Here is a donation link. The video shows a payload, which I helped design for the STEM school in highlands ranch, Colorado, a sound propagation experiment:
https://www.gofundme.com/eu985jy4
Our club contains 5 Licensed amateurs so far, and we are recruiting more. We meet during lunch hour in one of the Science rooms.
73, and Thanks from
Skyler Fennell KD0WHB - President, Founder, Trusty of the club Call Jordan Walters KD0MLV - Co-founder Ian Tompkins KE0GET Christopher Banchero - KE0DTG Dong Lee - KD0ZOE Other Students in the club, who plan on soon getting their ham license.
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