Huntsville Alabama
Great Plains
Super Launch
The premier High Altitude Ballooning Experience
June 15-17, 2023
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 23rd year. Hosted in various locations around the midwest, GPSL attracts the brightest and most innovative amateur balloonists from the US and abroad.
2023 Symposium Venue
Dates
Event Registration
GPSL Groups.io Reflector
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Call for presentations for the Great Plains Superlaunch 2023 event in Huntsville AL this June 16 and 17th
Great Plains Super Launch Apr 1, 2023 | 01:20 amWe have a number of presentation already. If you'd like to give a talk at the Great Plains Superlaunch 2023 even in Huntsville AL n June 16/17, please post it here on GPSL or email me: wb8elk at gmail dot[…]
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Re: Github copilot
Great Plains Super Launch Mar 31, 2023 | 21:54 pmIt's pretty amazing to be honest. We threw it at an obscure scripting language that one of our vendors uses at work. It's a bizarre cross between PL1 (predates C) and transact SQL. GPT was able to deduce enough from about[…]
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Github copilot
Great Plains Super Launch Mar 31, 2023 | 19:10 pmHave any of you played with github's copilot AI? It works as an extension to VSCode. I have moved to this and Platformio to do any Arduino like code and it is surprising how well it can predict what I[…]
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Re: Question for y'all
Great Plains Super Launch Mar 30, 2023 | 20:22 pm
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You can - and people do. Of course you have to fill the balloons
near identically to ensure they float at the same pressure (or I
guess you could use a manifold to connect them). Apart from cost
the downside[…] -
Re: Question for y'all
Great Plains Super Launch Mar 30, 2023 | 19:41 pmSasha:I am sure you will hear from others on this but you can add additional balloons. You need to make sure that you have no contact on the balloons with other balloons or flight string as the rubbing action could cause balloon[…]
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Question for y'all
Great Plains Super Launch Mar 30, 2023 | 12:09 pmHello,I've written to many groups, but none have really been able to answer the question. For pico balloons, if the weight limit is only 10g for *one balloon*, why can't we just use many of them to lift a heavier payload[…]
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Re: Pico balloon!
Great Plains Super Launch Mar 23, 2023 | 13:46 pmSounds interesting. Good luck.Seeing just how far we could push the technology is how we all got started in this hobby. :-)
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Re: Pico balloon!
Great Plains Super Launch Mar 23, 2023 | 13:40 pmI'm now trying to bend the laws of physics getting long-term SSTV from a pico balloon haha
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Re: Pico balloon!
Great Plains Super Launch Mar 23, 2023 | 13:20 pmHi Bruce, The point of the UHF beacon was just to signal the fact that the LED is still running at low horizon elevations. It was just a cheap 434MHz module occasionally sending a very short carrier every minute or so. Once[…]
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Re: Pico balloon!
Great Plains Super Launch Mar 23, 2023 | 13:17 pmHi SashaCan you provide details on the UHF beacon you're using?ThanksBruce, VE5BNC
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