Mar 03
Speaker Topic for this Month: “High Altitude Balloon Launches” Joanne Michael, KM6BWB Joanne Michael, KM6BWB is an educator, wife, mom, space geek, and ham radio operator. While attending Advanced Space Camp in 2012, she was first introduced to the idea of high-altitude balloon launches. After a few more years of thinking about it, an opportunity …
Aug 09
N6RRY Long Duration Balloon Project Greg Martens, N6RRY Greg Martens, N6RRY, and other hams built a long duration balloon that circled the Earth 5 times. Greg’s APRS callsign, N6RRY-11, was used to track the balloon around the world. When: Tuesday, August 10th at 6:30 PM Where: Virtual Meeting on Zoom Due to continued COVID-19 public …
Jan 18
W6TRW General Meeting February 13, 2018 Tuesday Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance Guest Speaker: Joanne Michael, KM6BWB “High-Altitude Weather Balloon Launch” It began with ham radio…. In 2016, Mrs. Michael decided she wanted to launch a high altitude weather balloon with her students. A science mentor of hers told her she had to …
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