On May 29, 2014, at 20:22, "gil gil@... [FT-60]" <FT-60@...> wrote:

Hey Bill Boyer:

I'd like to hear more about your balloon stuff. ?I had not seen the argent shield before -- how do you like it? ?My first balloon started with an arduino micro (lightweight uno), but after loading the libraries for the SD card logging and the adafruit gps lib, I had very little flash space for other stuff, so I put a mega in there. ?Then I lost the mega in the great LE-2 disaster when I lost the payload and slapped myself for not having a second independent tracker/gps/bat. ?I got another mega and found a circuit board short under the chip. ?Swapped it, flew again, and then used a payload based on a pic design. ?I am currently laying out a new pcb specifically for hab use, which will take either my pic design or an ard mega.?

Keep me posted on your balloon project.

Thx, ?gil

Sent from my portable teletype machine.

On Wed, 5/28/14, Andy Rose ki6sep@... [FT-60] <FT-60@...> wrote:

Subject: Re: [FT-60] Windows 8
To: "FT-60@..." <FT-60@...>
Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2014, 3:59 PM


?









I've got my
usb-to-serial adapters working under w8 with various ham
radio software packages. My serial programming cable is in
one of the boxes from our move but which one..? I can't
vouch that it will work but I'd be surprised if it
didn't.


Fill in some more details such as
whether your programming cable is usb or serial, which brand
chip set it uses, etc.

Andy


On Wed,
May 28, 2014 at 3:52 PM, hamuneggs@...
[FT-60] <FT-60@...>
wrote:
















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Much to my dismay I have had to move
from XP to Windows 8. I wound up with my mom's new HP
all in one with the AMD processor. I have the programming
cable from Valley enterprises and it worked great with my
MacBook and my XP machine, no luck on the new one. I need
some real help on this and any would be appreciated. Thanks
in advanced.
































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On May 26, 2014, at 11:45, "'Gil Smith' gil@... [FT-60]" <FT-60@...> wrote:

Well, aprs proved to be darned handy for my balloon flights. ?Used a byonics freq-agile transmitter to tx both on .390 and a quiet channel. ?I want to try something remote like an solar-powered weather station or a boat at sea. ?Out in the middle of nowhere where digis can't hear, I could tx on a sat freq if I can hit it. ?If I can't track at the remote site, and just use a fixed antenna, I would at least need to program the days/times of view to tx a packet or two when the sat is overhead. ?Even getting one packet through every day or two would be useful.

I would have a home station (hand-held at first, then maybe motor-driven) to receive and decode the aprs data from the iss/sat. ?Actually anybody could receive and decode it. ?I just take the audio out of the HT, split it to run to headphones and the audio-input of a laptop, and run the soundcard modem by UZ7HO.

Just want to try something different and interesting.

gil