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Recap of EOSS-111by Benjie Campbell, W0CBH What a great weekend. We all had a great time.
The seminars were great. Had some very interesting presentations on what other groups are doing with prediction programs, tracking programs, processes and methods, and general bloopers and launches.
Bill is planning a westward flight and needs some
volunteers to track and try to recover his payload. Indiana to Colorado?????
Saturday's flights were from a great little airport (Lyons-Rice Municipal) and the launches went off without hitches.
We had some interference on 144.34 from somewhere that finally stopped just before our balloon landed. We were all able to see it descend from 1500 feet to the ground. the chute was very visible and the payload landed about a 1/2 mile from the road in a field. Harry and I thought we might have to get out the corn field boots, but no, it was just an ordinary field. Darn, I really wanted to try out my new boots. Oh well, next year.
We stopped for lunch at a church in a near by town that provided a great lunch with cookies, sloppy joes, a really neat fruit cup, and lots of comradeship. Several of the balloon groups at GPSL attended the lunch.
Home to the hotel then a short nap, and nice dinner at the Lonestar Steakhouse Saturday evening. We left for home Sunday morning in a convoy of four vehicles.
Marty and Sharon had driven on the Nebraska to visit her sister and they are due home Monday evening. webmaster note: Sorry about the blurriness of the image in the Precision driving video but this is still the best clip I managed to capture. Next time we'll have to choreograph both the precision driving and the photographic pass so the beauty and majesty of this event can be properly captured. Callsign legend:
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