Great Plains
Super Launch
The premier High Altitude Ballooning Experience
July 9-10, 2021
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 21st year. Hosted in various locations around the midwest, GPSL attracts the brightest and most innovative amateur balloonists from the US and abroad.
2021 Symposium Venue
Dates
Symposium on July 9, 2021. Individual Launches: July 10, 2021
Friday July 9, 2021
14:00Z / 9:00AM (CDT)
Balloon Symposium
Venue
Online
Saturday July 10, 2021
14:00Z / 9:00AM (CDT)
Worldwide Balloon Launch
Venue
Join us in a mass-launch across the global Saturday morning, July 10th.
Event Registration
GPSL attendees are required to pre-register.
GPSL Groups.io Reflector
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Day vs night
Great Plains Super Launch Dec 21, 2021 | 19:02 pmIt's been a LONG time. I da oldem days we always thought that the difference in "Lift" at day vs night was about 10%. In other words at sundown you loose about 10% of your lift. and at the other[…]
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Re: Permission to show your callsign on a TV program.
Great Plains Super Launch Dec 8, 2021 | 22:09 pmFine with me!Shane Wilson, N4XWC
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Permission to show your callsign on a TV program.
Great Plains Super Launch Dec 8, 2021 | 12:52 pmA Japanese TV company (One by One) have approached me** to help get permission to show the Habitat tracker screens on a TV program. I can't see a problem with the screens per-se (other than the usual Google Maps issues)[…]
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Re: Flight Predictor Page?
Great Plains Super Launch Dec 5, 2021 | 16:37 pmWOW!
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Re: Flight Predictor Page?
Great Plains Super Launch Dec 5, 2021 | 16:23 pmHabhub grabs the data for the entire earth 4 times a day. That has a 1 degree resolution. Then they interpolate between time, altitude, long, and lat to come up with the wind at the current balloon time and location. […]
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Re: Flight Predictor Page?
Great Plains Super Launch Dec 5, 2021 | 14:56 pmI tried that one, it seems to work, almost seems too simple! I guess from the launch location, it is smart enough to know what sonde data to grab? I remember the old days where I had to go and[…]
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Re: Flight Predictor Page?
Great Plains Super Launch Dec 5, 2021 | 14:26 pmI find this on-line prediction to be somewhat reasonable when it comes to Radiosondes.http://predict.habhub.org/#!/uuid=a2b6cf262e4662d11c3ebd58c603d500bac397fc
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Re: Flight Predictor Page?
Great Plains Super Launch Dec 5, 2021 | 00:04 amLooks like mine (https://s3research.com/tools/flightpredictor/) isn't working right now. It looks like the weather file has a change that is breaking it. I can fix it if anyone wants to use it.At GPSL 2017 I did a comparison of the various[…]
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Flight Predictor Page?
Great Plains Super Launch Dec 4, 2021 | 23:44 pmWhat now days is the best flight prediction page calculator now days? joe WB9SBD
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Re: Like to track balloons? How about tracking radiosondes!
Great Plains Super Launch Nov 27, 2021 | 13:49 pmOn 11/24/2021 8:08 PM, Hank Riley via groups.io wrote:What a kick this is. There are many newer (presumably better) versions of this original Yagi Cad 4.1 program from the author Paul of Australia. They're ALL there including the very first[…]
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