West Lafayette Indiana
Great Plains
Super Launch
The premier High Altitude Ballooning Experience
July 15-16, 2022
GPSL Online Symposium Link
Join Zoom Meeting
https://cornell.zoom.us/j/9132
Meeting ID: 913 2614 2944
Passcode: 855793
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About the Event
Great Plains Super Launch is the premier high altitude ballooning event in North America. Started in 2001 by Paul Verhage, this annual event will be celebrating its 22nd year. Hosted in various locations around the midwest, GPSL attracts the brightest and most innovative amateur balloonists from the US and abroad.
2022 Sympium Venue
Dates
The online symposium will be held on July 15, 2022. Any groups wishing to launch balloons are encouraged to on Saturday July 16th from your home location.
Event Registration
There is no need to pre-register for GPSL 2022. The link to the online meeting space will be posted to the SuperLaunch.org website on the night of Thursday July 14. Thank you for your interest in the Great Plains Super Luanch
GPSL Groups.io Reflector
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Re: BASE 114 Successful- BASE 115 tomorrow
Great Plains Super Launch Aug 5, 2022 | 16:05 pmIs any one using the lite aprs tracker I am having problems with erratic transmission times-- ThanksStan SiemsCNS INTERNET SERVICES319-231-3449The difficult we do right away the impossible just takes a little longer.Semper FI
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Re: BASE 115
Great Plains Super Launch Jul 31, 2022 | 15:20 pmFantastic work Howard, and thanks for sharing the details.CheersKev
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Re: BASE 115
Great Plains Super Launch Jul 30, 2022 | 18:33 pm
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Contratulations on your series of flights Howard. Watched the flight on APRS and knew you wanted to avoid trees-sorryHope your recovery goes well.MarkKA9SZX -
BASE 115
Great Plains Super Launch Jul 30, 2022 | 18:14 pmBASE 115 flew today. Flight ascents were a little bit faster than predicted. I am afraid that my students have adopted an overly conservative approach (they have heard about Mike Manes :)) and we gave the balloons a little too[…]
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BASE 114 Successful- BASE 115 tomorrow
Great Plains Super Launch Jul 29, 2022 | 19:15 pmB_._BASE 114 showed a successful cutaway at the predicted altitude of 15 km. Easy recovery in a soybean field adjacent to the property owner's home. He was amazed that we had tracked the descent into his field and my students walked directly to[…]
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BASE 114 and 115
Great Plains Super Launch Jul 28, 2022 | 13:05 pmWe will be wrapping up our summer flights on the next two days.Friday, July 29 at 8:00 AM EDT (1200UTC) we will do a test flight on the reprogrammed balloon cutdown device. The intention is to cut the balloon off[…]
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Re: GPS-320FW(AS) failed at 39986 feet.
Great Plains Super Launch Jul 25, 2022 | 15:54 pmThe datasheet shows -20c as it’s minimum operating temp and 25km as it’s max height without a firmware update for space operations. I would expect the button battery as mentioned above!
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Re: GPS-320FW(AS) failed at 39986 feet.
Great Plains Super Launch Jul 25, 2022 | 15:40 pmOne other thought. If the GPS module has a button battery to keep the parameters cached, perhaps the battery wore out? I had that happen with one GPS, and it defaulted back to non-airborne mode.Mike / KD2EAT
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Re: GPS-320FW(AS) failed at 39986 feet.
Great Plains Super Launch Jul 25, 2022 | 15:08 pmHi KipThis isn't one that's affected the 18km limit. It normally has an altitude limit of 25km but this is one with the high altitude firmware that works well above 30km. As I mentioned, this tracker and GPS has been[…]
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Re: GPS-320FW(AS) failed at 39986 feet.
Great Plains Super Launch Jul 25, 2022 | 12:51 pmYes. Some GPS brands stop working between 32000 and 40000 feet. There was a rule that said a consumer GPS can not work above something like 32000 feet or above a certain speed. It was to prevent cheep GPS units to work[…]
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