[balloon-makers] Introduction, Keith Sproul, WU2Z

[Keith Sproul <private e-mail address>]

Hello All

My name is Keith Sproul.  I am a Ham Radio person too (WU2Z)..  My 
name has already been mentioned her a couple of times.

I have done work with Jon Radowski. He has been a great person to 
learn from. I have also been working with Tom Deering. We are going 
to be making a couple balloons together..

I have already made two Radio Controlled balloons:
The first one was made from scrap material from a 'real' balloon.

	http://dorm.rutgers.edu/balloon/scrapballoon.html

I just finished the second one, and the first pictures (from this 
evening's inflation) are at:

	http://dorm.rutgers.edu/balloon/rutgersballoon.html

My brother and I work for Rutgers University and this was done for 
the Rutgers Ham Radio Club to show-off at Rutgers Engineering Open 
House which is THIS weekend.  Tom (and hopefully Jon) will be joining 
me for this effort.

I will be making a 42k Pink and Purple envelope for my T&C chariot 
balloon. A drawing of what this will be like is at:

	http://dorm.rutgers.edu/balloon/pp.html

Thanks to Jon Radowski for the drawing..


Also, as has been mentioned on this list, I am one of the authors of 
APRS. APRS is Automatic Positon Reporting System.  This is the system 
that was used to track the balloons in the Gordon Bennett race last 
October.

My brother and I write WinAPRS (for Windows) MacAPRS (for Macintosh) 
and X-APRS for X-Windows (LINUX / UNIX). There are other versions for 
DOS, Palm Pilots and the Web, this were written by friends of ours.. 
We have been writing this software since 1993.

Also, of note: My brother and I are identical twins, our wives are 
fraternal twins, their birthday is ONE day after ours (YES SAME 
YEAR), we are all Ham Radio Operators

Keith Sproul
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Keith Sproul			Ham Radio WU2Z
ksproul@vger.rutgers.edu	732 821-4828
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