Hamstuff, Balloonery, etc.

Newest stuff

• Photos from selecting protective cases for my portable QRP gear.

• Binary Coded Morse (old concept, new write-up)

• Alternative USB options to program a Wouxon handheld in Windows 10.

• Updating an early TNC-X for USB connectivity with Windows 10.

• New thinking - an ultralight balloon package.

• Balloon Recovery Simulator: a Google Maps mashup for rehearsing high-altitude-balloon recovery operations.

APRS

• Old - TNC-X from Coastal ChipWorks.

• Amateur radio satellite passes (or just for the ISS) from the excellent Heavens Above stargazing site.

• SGATE activity through my home station, KI4MCW-7 (old).

Microcontrollers

• Old - ZX-24 microcontroller from Elba Corp.

• A project to use an Arduino as a KISS TNC.

• A project to use a Propeller board as a KISS TNC.

• Some ideas regarding testing TNC gadgets (trackers, etc.).

• Code samples from my research into using microcontrollers to send SSTV.

• Experiment to send SSTV from a Raspberry Pi.

• Binary Coded Morse

Balloonery (all old)

• My first high-altitude balloon mission was not successful, but was a good learning opportunity.

• Snapshot of my flight computer code for the ZX-24 (old).

• Ideas for a mission with far more modest goals and equipment.

• Some thoughts about balloon cutdown mechanisms.

• The original inspiration for my project - Jim Meehan's site describing his first high-altitude balloon launch. (Aha! Found it on the Wayback Machine!)

• Edge of Space Sciences - the authoritative source for amateur high-altitude ballooning information.

• Montana State University's BOREALIS Program, another excellent source of HAB info.

• The Loudon County (Virginia) Amateur Radio Group's balloon project site.

Miscellany

• The Richmond Amateur Telecommunication Society website.

• Some random files that might be useful

• Some links that I always seem to lose....

• Some tricky command lines that are hard to remember.