Hi Pat,
Well, I messed that up. Printed them but at 5:45 AM forgot to pick up the stack of fliers off of the printer. Was a good fest. We sold out on tables, had a full tailgate areas, and more attendees than last several years. (Last year we were snowed out.)
The remains of the balloon, the parachute and the payloads were on display. Got quite a few questions.
Anyway, I will be there on the 15th.
73, Tom n4zpt
Pat Kilroy wrote:
Hi Tom,
Thanks for your message. My e-mail was down on Wednesday, Feb 6 and did not come back up until 13 days later!
Thank you for offering to pass out the fliers, that's great! Getting the word out is one of our greatest needs.
As you can see from the flier and the official announcement blurb, we include high-altitude balloon experiments in the local AMSAT stuff.
I'm not sure how late the amsat meeting will go; likely not passed 5 P.M. Then again, we may not have enough presenters to get us THAT far into the afternoon. But then again, in the past people have come come forward only in the few days before hand. So your offer is most appreciated this weekend!
Have a good hamfest and thank you again for all your support (and all the cool ham activities you do in our area).
Cheers,
Pat N8PK
http://patkilroy.com/amsat-dc http://patkilroy.com/simsat
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Azlin, N4ZPT [mailto:n4zpt@cox.net] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 12:03 PM To: pat@patkilroy.com Cc: amsat-dc@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-dc] March 15 is the Date
Hi Pat.
I will print copies of the brochure and put them out at Winterfest and put them on one of the Vienna Wireless Society tables. Probably next to our VWS-5 and VWS-6 balloon display.
I will be happy to stay and help with cleanup. Will have to get some supper depending on how late that runs.
And as I mentioned before I would be happy to bring our high altitude balloon flight hardware and the remains of our last balloon as part of a show and tell. Not a satellite, but perhaps if you have room.
73, Tom n4zpt
Pat Kilroy wrote:
Hi guys,
We have about three weeks until our local AMSAT meeting and space seminar. Here is my status report.
We have three speakers lined up and one demo.
I have two (maybe three) volunteers lined up, but with a list of nearly twenty tasks not filled. The entire list is shown on the http://patkilroy.com/amsat-dc web page.
Are we okay with this?
Your thoughts and advice will be greatly appreciated on this amsat-dc mail list.
Thanks,
Pat Kilroy, N8PK host
Pat Kilroy pat@patkilroy.com