Hello TVNSP Enthusiasts,

The Idaho Society of Radio Amateurs (ISRA) would like to see a 25 to 30 minute presentation about “Near Space Ballooning and Ham Radio” at their September 16^th meeting.  Their monthly newsletter will go to press in about a week.  I’ve been asked to submit a short paragraph this week describing the proposed content of the September 16^th Near-Space presentation. 

I am just starting to put together an outline for this presentation.  Any and all suggestions from the TVNSP group would be appreciated. 

Mike Rogers, do you still have our capsule?  I have Mike Garske’s partially-built capsule here.  I’d like to take one or more capsules as a prop.  I can get lots of photos from our website.  I think I’ve got a couple of video clips, though I’m not sure they both still play on my machine.  I was thinking of the one that shows the burst and ‘chute deployment, and the one that shows the jet zipping by.  I might even show some video of last year’s Twin Falls flight that was shot from Dan’s RC plane. 

Regarding the ISRA newsletter paragraph; I thought I might talk about why we like to fly to near-space.  Are there any of you writers out there that would like to try to answer this question?  I’ll submit an eye-catching near-space photo too.  Any suggestions? 

Who knows; maybe we’ll spark some serious interest in someone at the ISRA meeting and get the TVNSP group flying again.  

Thank you in advance for all your help. 

Best regards,

Tony – N7MTZ