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High altitude balloon DDF . Team Leader: Adam Chen Group Members: Josh Beighle , Aaron Seyfried Faculty Advisors: Dr. John Wu, Dr. Joseph Slater, Dr. John Gallagher Industry Advisors: Nick Baine , Bruce Rahn , Steve Mascarella
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High altitude balloon DDF Team Leader: Adam Chen Group Members: Josh Beighle, Aaron Seyfried Faculty Advisors: Dr. John Wu, Dr. Joseph Slater, Dr. John Gallagher Industry Advisors: Nick Baine, Bruce Rahn, Steve Mascarella Previous Member Advisors: Andrew Crowdy, Dan Rahn, Steve Overmeyer February 17th 2012
Overview • Introduction • Functionality • Progress • Budget
Introduction • Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Radials (VOR) to Doppler Direction Finder (DDF) • Why did we switch? • Proper resources not available • Similarities and differences in expected outcome • VOR- Receiving, processing, and returning a signal • DDF- Processing a signal from the balloon
Operating points and Equipment • Operating Frequency • 146.565 MHz • Transmitter • Receiver • 18 inch antennas
Sponsors • The Ohio Space Grant Consortium (OSGC) • Wright State University Curriculum Development Grant • National Science Foundation (NSF)
Summary • Introduction • Functionality • Progress • Budget
Questions • Adam Chen: chen.83@wright.edu • Josh Beighle: beighle.3@wright.edu • Aaron Seyfried: awseyfried@gmail.com