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Use this to make your yagi:Quick Yagi Copyright By Chuck Smith and RAI Enterprises, Inc. Very nice freeware program to design a yagi antenna to your frequency. You set the parameters or let the software auto design an antenna.http://www.thefintels.com/aer/qy4.zipWOW!!!! Thanks….   Read more»

Use this to make your yagi:Quick Yagi Copyright By Chuck Smith and RAI Enterprises, Inc. Very nice freeware program to design a yagi antenna to your frequency. You set the parameters or let the software auto design an antenna.http://www.thefintels.com/aer/qy4.zip

Most definitely. Somewhere around here I have an article printout from an old QSL magazine on the design and construction of small 3 to 18 element Yagi’s for 70cm bands. If I find it, I’ll post it here on the…   Read more»

Greg, John is an excellent resource for radio tracking. John has flown many min diameter rockets and I believe has the best record finding them with trackers as well. He is your guy.

Most Adept transmitters are mounted in the nosecone. A 38mm 5:1 conical will hold one nicely 😀 there is some interesting geometry when you get into the 29mm stuff. I can show you a typical mounting at MHM.JW

If the antenna is housed in the nose cone, will it effect the transmission strength drastically?I have to admit here, I do not know what the Faraday shield is. My HAM experience is with 2m used in off road communications….   Read more»

Not silly at all, Mule. The MWC mini has no ground plane to shield it. Keep the TX and altimeter as far from each other as you can. Arm everything as it will fly, and TEST before you fly! Worst…   Read more»

Amen! Poor HAL… 😯 I remember studying the film in film class as an English major in ’73 or so… Kubrick, what a director! 2001 and Dr. Strangelove! Yeeeeeha!

We just watched “2010” again last week. I liked that a lot more than “2001”. Roy Scheider, John Lithgow… great cast. Highly recommended! I was pleasantly surprised at how well the movie aged.

i’ve been a fan of his for 25 years plus – 2001 was such a great story. heard on the news yesterday that his book “childhoods end” was even better. going to have to pick that up now.sad to lose…   Read more»

The first movie I was ever allowed to watch alone at the movietheater was 2001 A Space Odessey. Phoenix AZ in 1972. Hadto go alone because no one I was friends with at the time normy parents thought it was…   Read more»

i’ve been a fan of his for 25 years plus – 2001 was such a great story. heard on the news yesterday that his book “childhoods end” was even better. going to have to pick that up now.sad to lose…   Read more»

i’ve been a fan of his for 25 years plus – 2001 was such a great story. heard on the news yesterday that his book “childhoods end” was even better. going to have to pick that up now.sad to lose…   Read more»

I missed the tour for the Trinity site by 3 days. (Its only one time a year) Actually, you chances are twice that! It’s open two times a year, the first Saturday of April and October. I haven’t been there…   Read more»

I agree with JW that the trip to the Space center in Alamogordo and the Missile park in White Sands were way cool. Also the Atomic Museum. I missed the tour for the Trinity site by 3 days. (Its only…   Read more»

I think the best space museum out west is probably the one in Alamogordo, New Mexico… Their website is so bizarre in that it shows very few pix of the “rocket garden”. They have a V2, just as it fell…   Read more»

8) The thing that really got me was the quality of the Soviet workmanship. For some reason I was thinking they were not up to par. Their welding of small parts was a thing of beauty. They have a different…   Read more»

Okay, now I’m officially drooling… way back in 1996, my wife and I DROVE BY WHITE SANDS! Why didn’t I make a right turn, this time guaranteed–although to Kansas!

8) The Cosmosphere is about 15min from Kent Burnetts house. And the last trip over there we went. A MUST see, they have the largest collection of Russian Space Goodies outside of the USSR. The Liberty Bell 7 is way…   Read more»

Man, what I wouldn’t give to be sealed up in it for a while with power on… I was really expecting some NCR members to come forward, saying they’d gladly seal me up in a Mercury capsule!