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The Liberty Bell exhibit is still he coolest exhibit I have seen to this day.Art

The Denver Museum a few years back (~7 or 8) had Grissom’s capsule and other stuff related to his launch – including the roll of mercury dimes he snuck on board. It wasn’t too long after it was raised from…   Read more»

JW, that is a good article. I didn’t realizes that Grissom’s Mercury capsule ended up at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, a place Joe recommends that everyone should see. Next trip to Missouri, gotta go!

I was unaware as to how poor the filters were on trancievers. I’ve only used 2m stuff in my truck & Jeep for talking to friends and Jeep trips to nowhere as a safety……. Some transceivers that only have a…   Read more»

Hehehehe dudeWarren/Mike.I hope I didn’t come across as a snot….Greglook at your avatarOh man, that was a complete accident, I totally missed that one, too funny. For the record, I had not finished my morning coffee.I was unaware as to…   Read more»

Yes, yes looking forward to multiple air starts with Sponge Bob. Woohoo.So who’s N motor are you flying?

I’m going to fly my L3 rocket on Sunday as well, on a middling-sized N. If the load proves out, I hope to fly it in my minimum diameter rocket at BALLS ’09. I need to slather another layer of…   Read more»

Yes especially Sunday. Sponge Bob is getting very antsy. My wife says he is really afraid to fly. I am starting to believe her.

Sounds great, Mike – thanks! looking forward to seeing everyone again. Hopefully we make up for last year’s weather this time?!?

John I will be there as well. Hope to be LCO if not I will help you out. Also I hope to have our new RMCS with live GPS telemetry out to demo MHM weekend. That is all I can…   Read more»

No worries, Mule – everyone (you included) clearly has the club’s best interests at heart. The use of transmitters is indeed a lot more prevalent than it used to be. A smart bunch like NCR will figure it out.For my…   Read more»

Greg don’t sweat it, no harm done and that is how people learn. As far as transceivers the front end filters are just as bad as scanners otherwise the scanners and transceivers would cost thousands not hundreds.Hehehehe dudeWarren/Mike.I hope I…   Read more»

Warren/Mike.I hope I didn’t come across as a snot…. It’s so hard to post on a board and not be taken wrong.Since I haven’t been to a large event, I have such a limited exposure that I really have nothing…   Read more»

2) It doesn’t appear to me that there are actually that many people running transmitter systems. Adrian was the first person in 3 launches that I saw with a transmitter. So, again, it appears to me that there is no…   Read more»

Don’t take me wrong – I’m far from talking about the “big boys” telling the “little boys” what cool toys they can play with – sorry if it sounded that way. I am far from a “big boy” myself -…   Read more»

Many perspectives to be mindful of here, and many valid points. I will say that there are indeed times we have had issues with multiple transmitters stepping on each other. MHM and other similar launches will amplify that.This gets further…   Read more»

Warren,I can understand a need for concern. However, I would like to toss some thoughts out on this.1) If there is that much of a variance on the transmitter frequencies when they are supposed to be on a fixed frequency,…   Read more»

Greg, you’re welcome.Warren, I agree that it would be better for people not to fly transmitters for rockets that stay in sight. But any motor larger than an A can be sent out of sight, given a sufficiently efficient rocket….   Read more»

Thanks Adrian.I really appreciate the pictures.Greg

Actually, the Adept system is great and quite cheap ($60) compared to any other transmitter. Until this winter, we had fewer than 10 people in the club who ever flew transmitters with most of them borrowing the 3 or 4…   Read more»