Copasetic Flow

 Halibut Electronics is working on a new satellite antenna kit! This is kinda cool for two reasons, first because we've recently started attending the high altitude balloon meetups at Noisebridge . Satellite antennas came up during one of the meetings. More tactically importanly though, the EggNogs docs inspired what be a better tuna can feedtrough for Projct TouCan's antenna! For notes, here's my original EggNogs documentation review reply : The documentation looks great so far! I've made it to page 17/22. One thing:     For those of us with partners heavily into fountain pens, those of us who like to print out manuals on JIS B5 paper and then store them in Kokuyo Campus binders, page numbers in the table of contents would be very cool. (I know, I know, such a niche group :) )   Mostly though, I wanted to thank you for jogging my memory into a, (I hope), better solution for Project TouCans antenna ports. At present, they're inverted bananna plug posts. Banana plug...

 The remote KD0FNR rockmite ham radio station finally came together easily at Noisebridge, our local San Francisco maker space. After unceremoniously  dumping the radio from the second floor to the ground a few times—thank goodness for solid state construction and good-enough solder joints—everything came together today. The radio was mounted on the end of a 1 x 2 inch piece of wood using a bar clamp, and then suspended about five feet out the second floor window. The rig still made it out to Utah quite handily! There were no CQ responses, but it's really nice to have station setup and tear-down to under 10 minutes on either side. Here's a video of the setup: And the twitch stream of the rig into Utah on SDR.