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This is my wiki where I will probably be slowly moving stuff over to. It's hard to beat a wiki for easily adding and editing content, so for posting projects and making notes it makes a lot of sense. I originally put this together to document the ANSR payloads I was working on. For general info on the club or on student payloads, please visit our main site ansr.org.

Image taken off an ANSR flight from approximately 40,000 ft

Balloon Beacons & Tracking

ANSR typically flies 2 - 3 beacons on a flight for redundancy. The currently operating beacons are identified below

• KA7NSR-11 (Yellow Beacon)
• KA7NSR-12 (Flight Computer)
• KA7NSR-13 (Baby Beacon)
• New Flight Computer (KA7NSR-14)
• PIC APRS Beacon (AD7ZJ-11)

Airplane Stuff

• Cessna 140
• Continental O200
• MA3-SPA Marvel Schebler Carb
• Grimes Strobe Repair
• Remote Cellular Switch

Ham Radio

• Kenwood TS-2000
• Motorola XTS-5000
• Kenwood TM-D710
• Helical Magnetic Loop Antenna

Misc Stuff

• Useful links
• Voltage Regulator Tube Lights

Getting started with MediaWiki

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list
• User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.