Agenda

Tour Lely Manufacturing, Pella.

Meet at the Parking lot at 9:15am.  -- SEE MAP --

Parking is very limited at Lely.  We will park just souuthwest of the Lely facility and hoof it over to the office/plant.  Follow the RED line into the far northeast parking area.  Enter at GATE 7.

You will be going past active manufacturing traffic, so be extremely careful and on the look out for forklifts etc.  This is not normal, but with last year's tornado things are really congested.  

The two buildings shaded in pink are no longer standing.  Don't get confused when you drive by on the way to Lely.

Long pants and closed toe shoes are required.

Tour of Vermeer Corporation: Environmental Products Division.

You will follow the light blue line into the parking area for Plant 4.  Enter at GATE 4.  Just look for an open space as we will be sharing parking with employees.  Again, be very careful in the parking lots.

Long pants and closed toe shoes are required.

Muon Detection in Upper Atmosphere

My presentation is on a muon detector developed by MIT. I gave flown it in one flight so far and will compare muon intensity to general cosmic ray background.

SDR Multi Balloon Tracking

Review of the software defined APRS system being used to track multiple balloon flights at EOSS. Overview of primary features like the graphical user interface and landing predictions as well as a discussion of the open source software used to power the system like GnuRadio, Dire Wolf, and Aprsc.

HAB in a Collegiate Ham Club

Recruitment and retention of radio amateurs in a Collegiate environment is challenging. Our students really don't want to talk on the radio. Basic electronics, digital communications and technology for Drones and robotics is much more appealing. Mike will discuss how a High Altitude Balloon project was used as a group project to teach Amateur Radio skills to Cornell students.

Keep It Stupid Simple

Mission success rates can be increased by planning ahead, and choosing systems that are easy and have few moving parts. From untangling ropes to tripping over wires, there are a number of things that you can do to make your launch day more enjoyable.