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Posted: April 26, 2024 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentParachute Mobile is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
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Time: Apr 27, 2024 09:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Meshtastic information
Posted: April 26, 2024 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentA young ham Benjiman, KO6CNT, recently brought it to my attention that Meshtastic is becoming popular among some of the new hams. It’s economical, technical enough to keep their interest but not overwhelming, and allows for engaging with other hams. Benjiman was curious to see what kind of Meshtastic contacts could be made if a skydiver were to jump with a Meshtastic node. Enough said! A small Meshtastic node will be part of each jump.
Meshtastic is a project that enables you to use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communication platform in areas without existing or reliable communications infrastructure. This project is 100% community driven and open source! You can learn more about Meshtastic at Meshtastic.org.
For those of you that have a Meshtastic node and want to see If you can make a contact, you’ll need to make the following modification to your node configuration.
Primary Channel: “PM”
User Preset: Medium Range-Fast
Default encryption
Keep in mind that line of sight will be 10,000 feet above Byron CA.
For this test a contact will simply be the fact that the you received a signal from the PM node. The skydivers will not have the time to send texts as they will be making radio QSO’s. We have no idea how this will turn out, but then that’s what it’s all about.
Practice jump today
Posted: April 19, 2024 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentHello everyone. It’s Rob. Hoping to make a test jump within the next 2 hours with the new HF setup for Mission 45 taking place next Saturday. I want to discover any issue now rather than during the mission. The frequency will be 14.295 MHz. I’m hearing propagation isn’t so good today. We’ll see. I’ll be on APRS during the jump. Search my callsign, KC6TYD. No SSID. I’ll be above Byon Airport in Byron CA. I try my best to post again when I have a better ETA.
Sorry folks. We typically get about 20 minutes notice before the next load. But the next load was the last load of the day and they put it on a “now call” which means if your ready to go load the plane now. Had to rush and get on the pane and didn’t get a chance to post here before hand. Oh well. Good jump and I’m glad this was a test jump as I did experience an audio issue.
Hope to make a contact with next Saturday.
-Rob
Less then two weeks away!
Posted: April 15, 2024 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentHer is a flyer for our upcoming mission.
Feel free to post, forward, or copy and hand them out.
We’re back!
Posted: March 31, 2024 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentHello everyone! Parachute Mobile is back and getting ready for another season of fun. We’re changing things up a bit on the HF side of things and have plans to jump with new devices to test out. You’ll have to check back for more information on that. In the meantime, here are the 2024 Mission dates:
April 27
August 17
October 19
More information coming soon.
QSL Cards have been mailed
Posted: November 23, 2023 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentMission 44 QSL cards have ben mailed out. If you don’t recieve yours email at skydivinghams@gmail.com. Tell us which jump or jumper and the apporxamate time you made the contact and we’ll be sure to get you your card.
Parachute Mobile is now on winter break. We’ll be back next spring.
Mission 44 jumps have completed
Posted: October 21, 2023 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment I big thank you to everyone that participated. We will have our gear at Pacificon tomorrow, 10-22-23. Come by and check out how we jump with all the gear. Don’t forget to Email us at skydivinghams@gmail.com and let us know which jumper and time you made a contact. This will provide backup to our log. Give us a month or so to get the QSL cards out. We’ll send the cards to the address you have listed in your QRZ page so make sure it is correct. -Parachute MobileMission 44 is a Go!
Posted: October 21, 2023 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentGood morning! It’s a cool windy morning at the Drop Zone this morning. As we get things setup just a reminder that if you make a contact with a skydiver today please send us an email at skydivinghams@gmail.com. The Zoom link for the live stream will be posted later this morning. We hope to have our first jump sometime around 1030 or so. Listen in on 147.570 simplex to get updates from Parachute Control, setup atop Mount Diablo.
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82290616088?pwd=Wm9JQVhYazBxV09RaHRJU2lCbThTdz09
1030 – Mark, AF6IM, is suited up and manifested for jump run in ~27 min. He should be out and under canopy roughly 20 min. later.
1108 – Mark is onboard and will be out in about 15 to 20 min.
1131 – Mark has been out and making QSOs for a while.
1134 – Mark is on the ground! YAY!
1257 – Rob, KC6TYD, is manifested for the next jump run. Expect him to be out and on the air at approximately 1325.
1308 – Rob is onboard and will be out under canopy in about 15 – 20 min.
1322 – Rob is out of the plane and under canopy.
1338 – Rob is safely on the ground! YAY!
1425 – Dmitrii, KN6MMW, is manifested for a jump run in 35 min. Expect him to be out under canopy in about 50 min.
1521 – Dmitrii is on board and should be out under canopy around 1535.
1538 – Dmitrii is out under canopy.
1551 – Dmitrii is safely on the ground. YAY!
That’s a wrap! Thank you all for your participation! 73!
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Mission 44 coming soon!
Posted: September 23, 2023 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
I can’t believe it’s been 14 years!!!! It’s been a blast providing a unique
way to represent both amateur radio and skydiving. We are always making tweaks
to the setup for each Mission and trying to come up with new ideas. Please note
that there will not be an HF jump for this mission. We want to provide the
ability to make as many QSO as we can within the limited time we have in the
air, so we will concentrate our efforts on 2 meters. As soon as we have a ZOOM
link for streaming video, we will post it.
Check back for updates.
Rob Fenn, KC6TYD, Team Coordinator
Parachute Mobile 