WGC2012 Uvalde Launch/Landing and US Team audio feed

[Tony[_5_]]

Rick Sheppe spent a lot of his daytime downtime last week putting together a system to stream radio from Uvalde online. It is available on liveatc.net: http://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=kuva

123.3 is used for the launch, mainly for CD/Sniffer communications and towplanes calling their landing patterns. The US Team frequency is also scanned so we can hear the chatter through the afternoon and then the glider landings are using 122.8 in the afternoon.

[Duster]

On Aug 13, 6:32*am, Tony > wrote:
> Rick Sheppe spent a lot of his daytime downtime last week putting together a system to stream radio from Uvalde online. It is available on liveatc.net:http://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=kuva
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> 123.3 is used for the launch, mainly for CD/Sniffer communications and towplanes calling their landing patterns. The US Team frequency is also scanned so we can hear the chatter through the afternoon and then the glider landings are using 122.8 in the afternoon.

Wonderful. Thanks, Rick and Tony for setting this up.
Mike

[Tony[_5_]]

On Monday, August 13, 2012 10:05:28 AM UTC-5, Duster wrote:
> On Aug 13, 6:32*am, Tony > wrote: > Rick Sheppe spent a lot of his daytime downtime last week putting together a system to stream radio from Uvalde online. It is available on liveatc.net:http://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=kuva > > 123.3 is used for the launch, mainly for CD/Sniffer communications and towplanes calling their landing patterns. The US Team frequency is also scanned so we can hear the chatter through the afternoon and then the glider landings are using 122.8 in the afternoon. Wonderful. Thanks, Rick and Tony for setting this up. Mike

Rick was the man on this one, I'm just a happy beneficiary since I had to go back to my normal job this week.

[JP Stewart]

This is great! Has the official live video stream been working at all?

JP

[Sean F (F2)]

Not hearing any audio. Anyone else on the audio feed?

[Paul Cordell]

On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 10:05:07 AM UTC-7, Sean F (F2) wrote:
> Not hearing any audio. Anyone else on the audio feed?

Up and running. Lots of dead air, but clear sound on occasional transmissions. US Team Manager Dennis coming thru Loud and Clear.

[Dave Nadler]

Worked yesterday, not working today, aaarggg...

[Tony[_5_]]

On Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:32:52 PM UTC-5, Dave Nadler wrote:
> Worked yesterday, not working today, aaarggg...

i think i read somewhere that the entire LiveATC site is down today :(

[Dave Nadler]

Tracker site is working - can see some of the fast Open guys.
Unfortunately Ron's SPOT appears to have died today;
that seems to be common (happened to me one day of 7
I tried it in Minden and upset people).

[BobD]

Trackers are clearly inconsistent. the TipTop one is my favorite with its interactive interface. But which one is accurate?

Early on lots of griping from everywhere that the contest's efforts to provide a "live" internet experience sucked. It of course would be easily solved if some nice sponsor would pony-up several hundred $$$ for the technology.. But I'd guess the actual look-in audience return isn't enough to move anyone's budget.

Hopefully some day the best tracker will be able to downlink flight/speed data, gin it into a a readout that would inform us who actually is in what place in the task standings.

[Darryl Ramm]

On Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:03:40 PM UTC-7, BobD wrote:
> Trackers are clearly inconsistent. the TipTop one is my favorite with its interactive interface. But which one is accurate?
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I agree that the new TipTop site is just fantastic, but its based on SPOT and so has no altitude data available and SPOT's back-end infrastructure often seems to suffer 30minute+ delays, that may or may not affect some gliders and not others. These delays are seen on SPOT's owne web servers/shared pages as well as ones that use their API. SPOT has some improvements to make here. They just don't seem to be a company with its act fully together at times.

Darryl

Darryl

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TA

On Thursday, August 16, 2012 6:49:01 PM UTC-4, Darryl Ramm wrote:
> On Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:03:40 PM UTC-7, BobD wrote:
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[Bill D]

On Thursday, August 16, 2012 4:49:01 PM UTC-6, Darryl Ramm wrote:
> On Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:03:40 PM UTC-7, BobD wrote:
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There's a very cheap terrestrial tracking option by using APRS Ham gear. The advantage is you can set any fix reporting interval you want and include any data you want. You could have a 4 second fix interval with 60 sec vario average, IAS & ALT ect.

Yes, I know users could need a technicians license but it's a really short and easy written test to get - RAS geeks wouldn't have a problem. And maybe you don't even need a technician license if a radio engineer "supervises" their use. Packet radio nets have virtually a 100% coverage of the US and most other countries. If a particular contest site has a coverage gap, installing a temporary repeater or two isn't a big deal.