[BLT] The PLAN for BLT-18 - FLIGHT on August 25, 2001!!

[Andrew MacAllister]

BLT-18 to the Edge of Space on Saturday, August 25, 2001,
at 10 AM from the Wharton Municipal Airport.

Greetings!

We have had our first BLT-18 Planning Meeting.
Attendees included W5ACM, K5ENG, KD5IIU,
N5RPQ, WA5TWT and WA5WOD.  KD5ELH and
AC5VF could not attend, but expressed their
desire to head up the cross-band repeater and
radiation experiment programs respectively.

A final planning meeting will be held on May 30th
at my house ( http://www.flash.net/~hmac/blt/W5ACM_QTH.gif )
at 8 PM.  We will make adjustments to the plan, its
implementation and the construction timeline at that gathering.

What is BLT-18?

Two payloads:
Instrumentation/experiments and comms to fly to 100K+ feet
Lifting body to be dropped between 10K and 20K feet, and then
flown back to the airport

The instrumentation/experiemnts and comms package will include:
Updated radiation detector system
Cross-band Alinco HT repeater - 2M in & 70 cm out
GPS packet output on 70 cm
Sulfur-dioxide Lithium batteries
Audio beeper
Long-life tracking xmtr (28 or 50 MHz)

The lifting body will include:
GPS packet output on 70 cm
1.2 GHz FM live ATV
Remote 2M cutdown system
Sulfur-dioxide lithium batteries
Audio beeper

Construction will occur at the NEW Secret BLT
Lab in North-Central Houston.

There are a few things that we will need that far
exceed the contents of the treasury (now at $147):
TWO GPS receivers (Garmin GPS-25 prefered)
TWO Totex 1200 balloons
Helium
Nylon parachute cord

There are some suggested activities:
Coordination of the chase via radio.  It worked
REALLY well last time.  Bill Allen has agreed
to do it again.
Mike N5MT suggests that we
make some stamp covers, fly them, get them
postmarked, printed, etc., and them sell them.
We have no sponsor for that yet.
Sell the rest of the BLT-17 T-Shirts.  We have
a number of Large and XXL shirts in stock.
We will not be creating a new shirt for BLT-18,
but will continue with BLT-17 shirts.  They look
great and they are white... perfect for an
August launch!

I'll C U at the meeting!!!

73 de Andy W5ACM


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