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We will have a table at the Steam Discovery Festival at Solano Commuity College May 3, 2025 from 10 an to 4 pm. We will have some fun things to show off.

SF-HAB will have a table at Pacificon (San Ramon) and Maker Faire (Mare Island). Martin, W6MRR will do a forum presentation on amateur radio high altitude ballooning. (Saturday 2:00 – 2:50 pm) We look forward to meeting you!

The air is now safer for all of us – https://taskandpurpose.com/news/norad-balloons-identify/

Please join us at the Benicia STEAM Discovery Festival. More info https://www.steamdiscoveryfestival.com/

We are looking forward to a HAB flight in the near future. We like to include at least a tracker, crossband repeater and SSDV image download. We have developed a 1.3 oz 0.5 W cross-band repeater for that.

Kazu has released the PCB design suitable for production with JLCPCB (or your favorite PCB source). The famous FOSS LightAPRS-W-2.0 code has been ported to the AG6NS tracker. The goal for the tracker is to support STEM/STEAM education and provide a fun way to introduce amateur radio to another generation. The tracker is an ongoingContinue reading “Kazu’s AG6NS RP2040 Tracker Board and Software Released”

A group of balloonists are working on sending video down for the eclipse. They have designed and built an amazing stabilized camera platform. Follow their progress here.

SBS-13 Balloon in air for 767+ days

Some serious balloonist will be flying a telescope from a high altitude balloon for observe the April 8 2024 total solar eclipse.

We are looking forward to a HAB flight in the future and would to send down in-flight images. Some of the systems we are looking at: Packet Compressed Sensing Imaging Gene Swiech WB9COY’s 9600 bps distributed receiver system YouTube video Gene’s RS41 (US weather service radiosonde) Camera Gene’s Radiosonde Ground Receiver Gene’s HAB Web Server Mark Jessop VK5QI’s 115Continue reading “Getting Images Down From a HAB”