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k6mfw uploaded a new video
(1 month ago)
Panning of attendees at LCROSS Impact Night at NASA Ames Research Center. Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke signs autographs while music video "...
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Panning of attendees at LCROSS Impact Night at NASA Ames Research Center. Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke signs autographs while music video "Water on the Moon" plays on the big screen. This song was created by John Marmie, LCROSS Deputy Project Manager.
Yes, many of these people camped out all night at grass area of Shenandoah Plaza at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.
LCROSS impacted the moon at 4:31 AM Oct 9, 2009.
For more on LCROSS Impact Night,
http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/impactnigh...
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k6mfw uploaded a new video
(2 months ago)
Some clips of 2008 Yuri's Night Bay Area held at NASA Ames Research Center (hey Rich, at least I uploaded this before end of the decade). I worked ...
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Some clips of 2008 Yuri's Night Bay Area held at NASA Ames Research Center (hey Rich, at least I uploaded this before end of the decade). I worked with the Ames Amateur Radio Club doing amateur television and did some runnning around with a camera. Warning: Excessive pan and tilt may cause space sickness. I also had a heck of time getting the white balance to work (I no longer use this camera). Thanks to Byron KG6UOB and Nader KI6DBU which both stayed late that night helping the AARC booth.
Ames did not have a Yuri's Night this year 2009, maybe next year (hopefully). 2008 Yuri's Night was a publicity bonanza for NASA and they should take advantage of such opportunities. Ames had a Yuri's Night in 2007 and Center Director Pete Worden appeared as a wizard. For 2008, he was a Soviet 2-star general (a promotion as he retired from USAF as a one-star general). If next year Ames has Yuri's Night, maybe Worden will appear as a Starfleet Vice Admiral (3-star officer, a promotion again).
Yes, this celebration of a Russian space achievement was done at a American space agency facility. Most remarkable was the large amount of 20-somethings here at NASA (average age at NASA is about 50). And most of attendees are the kinds of people you normally do not see at a NASA facility, which made the event really "interesting." You can see a lot of stage smoke coming from hanger building N211. There were other clouds of smoke of smells not found on federal facilities (but in college dorms).
If there will be another Yuri's Night at Ames, us ham radio people will be back in force with lotsa radio, TV, wireless techie stuff to show off.
Other Yuri's Night websites:
http://www.nasa.gov/YNBA/
http://www.ynba.org/2008/
http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/Shana's-Blog/posts/post_1208542102595.html
NA6MF - EME Operation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30J1uY...
Pete Worden welcoming speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4suU0...
Also seen is astronaut Col. Yvonne Cagle MD signing autographs and talking with people (how they or anyone else carry a conversation in such noise is unreal).
Video finishes with portrait of Gagarin. Next to the portrait is a posterboard I made of several photos of Yuri Gagarin from a Soviet publication from 1961. Book is about 500 pages, all in Cyrillic, with lots of photos and some cartoons. I scanned a number of pictures from this book, printed them along with other pictures from here and there including some from http://www.energia.ru/english/energia...
Why Yuri's Night? April 12, 1961 USSR launches Yuri Gagarin making the first human orbital spaceflight. This is when both countries USA and USSR got real serious on developing human spaceflight capabilities. April 12, 1981 USA launches Space Shuttle making the first reusable spacecraft flight but for nearly 20 years it had no place to go. But the Russians have a space station so both countries teamed up on International Space Station. April 12 becomes the perfect date to celebrate space, technology, art, sciences, and engineering.
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k6mfw uploaded a new video
(4 months ago)
My artistic contribution to document when NTSC TV transmissions ceased on June 12, 2009, here in south San Francisco bay area. Transmission was rec...
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My artistic contribution to document when NTSC TV transmissions ceased on June 12, 2009, here in south San Francisco bay area. Transmission was recorded on a tuner based S-VHS recorder connected to external OTA antenna.
Playback done later to a TV set bought at electronics flea market for $5. Plastic surrounded to contain debris. Two cameras setup to record event, both behind lexan to protect against flying shrapnel. Footage later converted and uploaded to youtube.
This was the fourth and final attempt, previous attempts failed to break the tube. There was no "big implosion" or large (or small) chunks of glass flying, these "newer" tv sets are well designed to contain debris. Unlike tv sets way back in the mid 20th century (when one of those old sets implode, it's action and adventure).
On converter boxes, I applied and received my coupon. I will not redeem it, instead I will frame it on my wall as my "federal welfare DTV check."
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k6mfw uploaded a new video
(6 months ago)
This new suspension footbridge recently completed, dedicated April 2009, spans over highway 280 just east of highway 85 in Cupertino, California. I...
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This new suspension footbridge recently completed, dedicated April 2009, spans over highway 280 just east of highway 85 in Cupertino, California. I regularly commute under this bridge, one day I noticed regular people instead of construction workers crossing the bridge. So I stopped by on a Sunday afternoon (May 3, 2009) and shot some footage. You can feel bounce on the bridge, some of the footage is not me with an unsteady camera hold, it is result of the bounce.
Bridge design looks quite similar to a fullsize bridge for vehicles (I cannot recall at this moment), could this bridge become a icon in this area? Maybe 30, 40, 50 years from now? Kind of like that place Hillsdale Inn at hwy 101 and Hillsdale ("Foster City Space Needle"), it was torn down a few years ago.
There is a webcam at http://www.cupertino.org/index.aspx?p... (I haven't tried it, need to register).
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k6mfw uploaded a new video
(6 months ago)
Here are some replays of STS-125 launch video from pad cameras. Rather than record direct from NASA-TV, I recorded these transmissions from K6BEN-A...
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Here are some replays of STS-125 launch video from pad cameras. Rather than record direct from NASA-TV, I recorded these transmissions from K6BEN-ATV, which re-transmits NASA TV throughout the south San Francisco Bay Area.
A directional yagi for 1255MHz receive was installed on the hilltop but it was not quite aimed at NASA Ames (originating uplink source) so a lot of radar interference is seen. Later in day, this antenna was tweaked towards Ames and radar interference was significantly reduced.
NASA TV retransmission through the K6BEN amateur television repeater. Originating source was the Ames Amateur Radio Club NA6MF (NASA Ames Research Center in south SF bay area, CA). Uplink is 1255MHz and downlink is 421.25MHz (same as cable channel 57 on a NTSC analog TV set). No license is needed for receive only, so attach an external antenna to your TV set, aim the antenna (vertically polarized) at Mt Hamilton.
Now for you people complaining it ain't high def and there's static in the video, ALL tv transmission equipment (L-band uplink, repeater site, etc.) is all done by work of time and expense by individual hams (no govt handouts or corporate sponsorships). We do it as was done in the 20th century, LIKE MEN!
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