ARES-RACES_Mar2020 (1)ARES/RACES March 2020
All of the appointments for the April 9th blood drive have been filled. American Red Cross thanks you for your great response, another blood drive will be scheduled in the near future.
Turlock Amateur Radio Club spring auction cancelled due to Covid-19
A series of informative flyers are being released thru our local Calaveras EOC during this crisis.
The balloon went down just north of Vancouver after 11 days and 4 hours. The telemetry shows a sharp temperature drop to -50C followed by rapid descent. We suspect the plastic became brittle and cracked but can only guess. Some weather hit it somehow. We managed to go around the earth once and we am totally gruntled. When the virus stuff settles, we will send up another this time with wspr and aprs and see how far we can go again. We have learned a lot. Considering this was our first try, we feel pretty good.
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David Voit
WB6TOU
