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up","transcripts":[{"confidence":0.8503715991973877,"created_at":"2026-10-28T06:02:43.166201+00:00","id":359642,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384297,"text":"Next on the list is Doc California N6 PTR. Good evening Q Doc. Well, if you're not full of that tonight, go ahead."},{"confidence":0.928951805723565,"created_at":"2026-10-28T06:02:17.491214+00:00","id":359641,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384296,"text":"after I see it, I think that's scheduled for December 6th. Anyway, I will keep it. Hopefully we got some folks still out there listening. Some of the traffic issues we had early cleared here on the whiskey, whiskey kilo Yankee. Hopefully we got some folks listening. And, you know, we're with Jack. I just want to share with you some of my observations. I'm not sure what happens in the front end of the net, but would like to make things better if we can, if we can send folks to planets and her moons at least, and all sorts of probes to planets. I know we can make this radio business smooth. W-2, here on the last path in the back. Thanks for having me, Bernice."},{"confidence":0.7009458669594356,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:18:26.829260+00:00","id":359558,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384212,"text":"on YouTube, so do appreciate you checking in over there. You've got any other questions, I know you're looking to get a scope over there. Observing as well, but if you've got any other comments or anything you'd like to pass along post them over in the chat window, I do appreciate you checking in tonight. Let's see, we've got a whole bunch of YouTubers Graham checked in and out, and we're in Scotland, Mike in Oklahoma, K05AOK, same to you, Mike, appreciate you checking in over YouTube, appreciate that. Any comments, anything like that? I don't think I saw anything. Lee, I'm Pueblo, KF0SI. Oh, thanks for checking in as well over on YouTube. Ha ha. Lee, I think that takes care of that little stuff."},{"confidence":0.5709775811747501,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:18:24.328949+00:00","id":359557,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384211,"text":"All right. Thanks for that. Yeah, we'll look forward. I'll see if you've got any new images for next month's newsletter. That I'll be working on in the rest of the week. All right, Roy, appreciate your comments. Appreciate you checking in tonight. And let's see. Fred, could they've been to you over on YouTube? Oh, and Danny too, I forgot to get Danny KF 0WXV. I'm Fred, KF8FSQ over on YouTube. I appreciate you guys checking in over there. Danny, I know you checked in earlier way up on YouTube. I was just scanning back through the list and didn't see it. But I've got you on the list now. All right. Next on the list, Craig, over on YouTube, K-D9 and UQE. Good evening to Craig. Welcome to the Colorado astronomy."},{"confidence":0.722783301025629,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:15:56.280890+00:00","id":359556,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384210,"text":"repeat this until someone how to repeat and where to fix it more than likely. So yeah, very well aware. All right, Jack, I got you checked in. I'm going to go ahead and get the model in here. Those of you who are waiting for the net, please stand by. This is KI-Zero. I are in that control for the Colorado Australian. All right, we'll keep rolling here. KI-Zero, V-H, we're rich. Gentlemen, this is John Sully, a 2JLS. Maybe we can have a chat about what I'm observing on our repeater offline. I'll try to get some contact information and we can try to sort things out for sure. It's probably not best handled on the year. W2JLS."},{"confidence":0.8033656584365028,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:15:53.908802+00:00","id":359555,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384209,"text":"If he was elsewhere, it could have been internet coming. He might tell folks that, you know, what specific stuff is known as me. It is needed to be of any help. But everything seems to be up and working now from what I can hear and see. Anyway, okay, very good. I kind of like telling Gordon Ramsay that, hey, your meal sucks. Well, which part? You know what I'm saying? I do. Having been a software tester for many, many years trying to figure out someone was saying it was going wrong with it and then trying to figure out what exactly was wrong. And my experience is, okay, I need to be able to..."},{"confidence":0.7887644271055857,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:15:51.662668+00:00","id":359554,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384208,"text":"Oh, here it is. I said, e-normally technical difficulties in the front third. Let's see. But he was operating. This was John. He was operating out of Ohio, though. Oh, he was going through this kind of network. So, in the know, in my side are claiming to be a network. Okay, well, don't know what to tell you. That is really, you know, not useful information. And it's not useful."},{"confidence":0.8712323691163744,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:15:49.837645+00:00","id":359553,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384207,"text":"Barry, down in Atlanta, K4WX, that's a new call on the list. Right now I'm going to touch base with you. I think I missed somebody else. Barry, welcome to the Colorado Astronomy Net. My name is Bernice, this is probably a uniform Romeo, and November echoes Sierra Sierra, the call sign to kill one in New Zero Isle for Romeo. You found the Colorado Astronomy Net, so welcome. Please talk a little bit about your background interest in astronomy. Are you starting out? Are you been doing it for decades or somewhere in between? Please go ahead. Good evening, I'm Chris from the Net. I've been in the past and been once in a while, but it is my first time checking in. I've always been interested in the stars, but never really owned a telescope."},{"confidence":0.7943134181774579,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:15:46.831748+00:00","id":359552,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384206,"text":"Oh apologies for that. Let's see. Eric, we've got John the list. Thanks for checking in tonight, Victor. Vic, K7MLI, thanks for checking in tonight. Susan, KJ7, QGF, thanks for checking in tonight. Barry, K4WX, thanks for checking in tonight. And Greg, KCA and GW, thanks for checking in tonight. There are some doubles in there. If I haven't called your call sign, I don't have you on the list. Aviation Peak, we've got John the list too. Huzzack, appreciate you checking in. Let's see. I'm just looking to see who's new. Yep, that's a new one."},{"confidence":0.6300462316721678,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:15:44.448573+00:00","id":359551,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384205,"text":"the technical questions and explain what's happening behind the scenes there. You know, if you want to try QSO1, the official website is qsonumberone.net. Let's see. I want to thank everyone who checked into the absolute technet tonight and everybody there in the background that keeps the net functioning. This is Scott in 7 FGP in Jamestown, New York. I will be switching the system over to the Colorado astronomy net coming up at the top of the hour. So if you could all please hold all transmissions while we make that switch. 7-3 everyone and everyone have a great evening. This is Scott in 7 FGP. I'll be clear."},{"confidence":0.8189452613393465,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:15:42.002379+00:00","id":359550,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384204,"text":"test today with overwhelmingly positive results. So it's just a few little things that didn't translate over, a few little edge cases. I imagine hopefully by the end of this week I will have that all cleared up. So I'm not sure, I know there's a review process every time you change the version number and test flight. My understanding is once you're in test flight already it's a very quick process to get it on the App Store. So who knows, end of this week, early next week we'll see. You'll be getting everybody will be getting an email from me who's signed up on QSO1.net as soon as it's widely available. Anyway, appreciate it and back to NetControl. All right, well that's gonna bring us the net to a close here. Frank, KDA, JKK. I want to thank you very much for joining us tonight and being willing to answer all the questions."},{"confidence":0.8148714560631882,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:15:39.259473+00:00","id":359549,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384203,"text":"work on your iPad tonight as soon as you download it. So you should be good to go, my friend. I'll toss it back to you. Oops, there we go. Sorry, Roger that. I appreciate that. And if I was going to wait for the release, the full release version, were you going to put that on the app store or where you want to release it through your website, sir? So yeah, the plan is to get it straight to the app store as soon as possible. Based off of today's results, I'm fairly confident we can do that quite quickly. So because I'm looking at the numbers here. And in fact, let me refresh them real quick. We have had about 500 Apple devices."},{"confidence":0.9275209089844592,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:15:36.928637+00:00","id":359548,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384202,"text":"compatible with iPad. We already have people running it on the iPad as of today. Also compatible with the new iPhone Duo. There's a little tweak I have to make there for when the larger screen inside is open. It mostly looks okay but it's a little bit tight space there. So I'm going to update soon to fix that but as far as we can see everything is working on iOS devices. The only problem we seem to have is for some reason the power button at the top of the app did not move over and there's been like two people on Mac books that the microphone is just not working for some reason. Like I said with every device there's an edge case right but yeah if you download it to your iPad today if you go on the Discord you can join the Apple test flight there and it'll work."},{"confidence":0.9053293367226919,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:15:34.588715+00:00","id":359547,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384201,"text":"that by simply just following basic directions you can which I'm still always constantly learning how to do I suppose. We've found that it's been very easy to integrate the other modes besides just EchoLink. I'm speaking on EchoLink mode right now but I really enjoy all the other options as well. I do have a quick question for you, sir. Right. In fact, Zinnaki returning, you're doing a great job with this and I'm wondering is the Apple iOS version going to be compatible with iPad. Go ahead. One hundred percent."},{"confidence":0.718340559729508,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:15:32.430312+00:00","id":359546,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384200,"text":"and your questions tonight. Let's go to Moyen Houston, Texas in 5ZIQ. Good evening Moyen. What you got for Frank tonight? How are you doing there? Guys, I appreciate you taking care of the net tonight. Mr. Chris, you're doing a great job, sir. Frank, thank you for joining us. We appreciate your efforts on all the QSO1 of course here. I have downloaded QSO1 on my Android phone and over here on also on the PC right now. I really enjoy the various options that have been presented in different modes and have found out."},{"confidence":0.9264890826307237,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:15:30.376671+00:00","id":359545,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384199,"text":"And actually, I bought one myself just because I really want to figure out how to make the PTT button work with the screen off, which I think would be great. But Unua kind of keeps their secrets. They did help us out, actually. I made direct contact with them. They helped us out with some of their key codes. But now we have to figure out how to listen for those with the screen off. It doesn't seem to want to do that. So I bought one myself. I haven't run it through its paces yet. I do run QSO1 on it. But I haven't hooked it up to my computer and looked at what makes it tick. Yeah. Anyway, thanks Eric and back to neck control. All right, Frank, thanks for that. You know, I thought it did work with the screen off on the Unua. I thought I had checked in somewhere with it off. But maybe I'm totally wrong there. All right. Eric, thank you for your check-in."},{"confidence":0.949028703616932,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:15:26.337856+00:00","id":359544,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384198,"text":"having Android Auto integration, CarPlay integration, along with even Wear OS integration and the Apple Watch integration, I think apps on those would be great as well. But definitely for people in the car making it easier, yet still safe to use is one of my priorities as well. I'll hand it back over to you, Eric, and then you can hand it back over to NetControl. OK, thank you so much. I appreciate that. I didn't realize it was a cheap life thing in the app itself. And I guess what is the Unoa 400 just real quick? And thank you so much, Frank, for doing all of this. Absolutely. The Unoa F400 is a POC Android quote radio. It's really just an Android phone with a PTT button on it. So it works surprisingly well with that."},{"confidence":0.9354882357532487,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:15:23.219160+00:00","id":359543,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384197,"text":"time out, you should be good either way. But in regards to the question with the audio system in your car, if it's using Bluetooth, so yes, the microphone is using your car's microphone. That's the way Android's audio path works. Because we're using the telephone audio path, you cannot split. And the reason, just real quick, the reason we're using the telephone audio path is so PTT buttons work. Just want everybody to know that. You cannot split the input from the output on the Bluetooth audio path in Android. Seems really odd to me that you can't, but that's the way it is. But yes, it is using a car. And we're also looking into, eventually, hopefully, sometime soon. I'm thinking early. By the end of the year, maybe early next year."},{"confidence":0.9295611004862521,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:15:20.607168+00:00","id":359542,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384196,"text":"that up, but I just wondered when you're using it in the car, does it go through the car audio system, or does it go through the microphone in the cell phone? I just wondered what the routing is of the audio on that. Thank you. WB9JNC, Eric, and Outside of Chicago, and by several miles. Well, I'm glad you're enjoying the program, Eric. Two things. In regards to your screen question, there's a little light bulb at the top of the app. Now, depending on your screen size, you may be in the full layout or in the small layout, but if you're in the full layout, there's a little light bulb in the top of the app. If you're in the small layout, you just press the settings icon at the top, and there's a Keep Screen Awake option, so that should help. But since I've Verizon already helped you through turning off the screen lock or the screen to"},{"confidence":0.8531716364668682,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:15:17.393749+00:00","id":359541,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384195,"text":"I'm following up in QRZ. Over to you. Okay, WV9J and Z. No, I'm an old ham. I just tried QRZ and I'm there. I don't know what's going on. Anyway, I just wanted to give a big thank you to Frank for writing this whole thing. I don't know how you do it, Frank. I'm not a programmer, but anyway, it's very good. I just found out about this net kind of late, so I just checked in late. Just a quick question. I got a whole bunch of people that were on Talkgroup 30 on D-Star yesterday. I was in my car driving to the grocery store and they wanted to know if you could use it in the car. I said, yes, and I'm doing it right now. So I had to also figure out how to keep my phone screen alive because it tends to go dark after a while. I called for a rise and then they helped me."},{"confidence":0.9604357273660993,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:15:14.305997+00:00","id":359540,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384194,"text":"I believe that's in the iOS version yet. I didn't quite translate over. So that is something that will be coming down the line. Anyway, thanks so much and back to the next roll. Yeah, you know, I have one of those Bluetooth PTT buttons. I'll have to test that out. I did start testing the blue parrot 450, but I haven't got that. I haven't totally done that one yet, but yeah, I'm sure that the Unawa F400 has become quite the popular device. I have one of those and I have the anysecute T60, which I think is the same as there's an Enrico model. Anyhow, it works great on both of those. Let's go to the next question. WB9JMZ, Eric. Now, Eric, are you a new Hamline? I'm not sure why you're not."},{"confidence":0.8930425544269383,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:15:11.304332+00:00","id":359539,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384193,"text":"And you've done a good job because I'm on a Unawa F400 and I have the Enrico as well and have enjoyed it. I was looking on the iOS version of literally the PTT button like you know, it's a ring on your finger kind of thing and just using the mic in the cab. But yeah, no, absolutely. One of those people that has a F400 and an Enrico and several calm jobs and an RFinder and you name it in zero OGS. Just to follow up with you there real quick, there are just pure PTT like buttons that you can find. I believe some are like made for the fingers, some are made for the wrist. You could you could take one and just I don't know tape it to your dashboards there or tape it to your steering wheel. So yeah, it works with a lot of them. A lot of them are Bluetooth low energy devices. So we added a scanning function. I do not believe that."},{"confidence":0.9248094581067562,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:15:08.094451+00:00","id":359538,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384192,"text":"There already is some level of that built into the app, but it's not too harsh, not too open. And then it's also device dependent too. So it uses the telephone audio path in Android. So each company that makes an Android device sort of does it a little bit differently on their own as well. So it will be device dependent. But for the moment, it works generally pretty well. I heard a little bit of a hiss on you there. But again, that may just be the microphone on the phone itself. But I'll tell you what, if you get that in Ricoh B01, you're going to sound crystal clear. You're going to sound crystal clear with zero background noise. So hopefully that answers your question. I'll toss it back over to you real quick. And then you can hand it back to net control."},{"confidence":0.9093827516439238,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:15:05.079483+00:00","id":359537,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384191,"text":"Is that something that's been looked at in the future? And zero GS, back to net control. Hey there from Willoughby Hills, Ohio. Not too far away, maybe about what, two, two and a half hours. Always excited to talk to another Ohio in here. Yes, the P2D button that I was referencing, it's the one that seems to work best. We have a P2D buttons that work, but we have to treat each on sort of a case-by-case basis because they all do things differently for some reason. And a lot of them are made to work with Zellow, which we've had to crack that as well. The one I use is the Enrico B01. And it works very well. I'll tell you what, the Enrico B01, Unua F400s we've sold because of QSO1 and Enrico B01s. Oh man, they should start paying us. As far as noise cancels."},{"confidence":0.927772270249469,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:15:01.945937+00:00","id":359536,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384190,"text":"Yes it is Eric and Illinois. All right, Eric, we'll get to you in just a second here. You're just not coming up in QRZ. Top of the list we have Thomas and Reynoldsburg, Ohio in 0 OGS. Good evening Thomas and what's your question for tonight? Over to you. Good evening from Reynoldsburg, Ohio, the birthplace of the tomato. We're required to say that. And yeah, I heard mention of a PTT button. That's really all I'm missing now with it being on IOS. In my truck is a way to do PTT without having to reach up and push the screen button. And then the other question was about noise canceling. Right now I'm solving that with a headset or a, you know, external. But is there any looking at noise canceling and background noise suppression?"},{"confidence":0.8445249854121357,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:14:59.263713+00:00","id":359535,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384189,"text":"Kilo Echo 5, Boxtrot Tango Tuleac, Kilo Echo 5, Boxtrot Tango Tuleac, in and out. Have a great evening, 73. Back to the next. This is... This is November 5, Zulu, India, Quebec. It's in 5 Zadakimoy, Houston. All right, let me grab it here and get these questions out there while we still have some time there. Hi, let's see. I picked up a moi with a question. In 5 ZIQ, we had Robert in Houston, K-E5FT, J-In and out. We have a station out there. Let me confirm this call sign. WB9 J-MZ, is that correct?"},{"confidence":0.6206590533256531,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:14:24.840089+00:00","id":359534,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384188,"text":"And here's one that the morning before that is actually passing right through the Orion spell at 5.30 AM. That's an interesting passage as well on the morning of the second. That is more interesting than the other one. As you can see from the star chart that it is passing right through Taurus and then right through Orion spell, that might make a very, very interesting photographic opportunity or video opportunity. If you could catch that passing through Orion spell or what have you from your particular location, I'm not exactly sure what your location is. So that's why I gave you this website. Again, that website, www.heavens-of-life."},{"confidence":0.8982862383127213,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:12:38.055310+00:00","id":359533,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384187,"text":"Is that it? Feedback, is that coming through? This is K.I. 0.A.R. K.I. 0.A.R.C. 2.J.L.S. You're clear now, Bernice."},{"confidence":0.6887658337752025,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:12:37.015570+00:00","id":359532,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384186,"text":"If you don't, if I can get a first name and a local student with those of you who are over there. I'm not sure which one it is."},{"confidence":0.5490301191806793,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:12:35.760733+00:00","id":359531,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384185,"text":"I'm going to go to the warehouse. There you go, Mike. K-O-5, OK. Thanks for checking in tonight. Thanks for checking in tonight. Lee. Lee is your S-I-O thanks for checking in tonight. Yeah, we got that. All right, we got that. All right. Yeah. Oh, wow. The feedback loop on the repeater there. Oh, man, again, those of you who are on YouTube. I don't have your little names memorized. All right, excuse me. Just a second recess. Just a second recess. Just a second recess. Just a second recess."},{"confidence":0.6435740743763745,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:12:33.540528+00:00","id":359530,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384184,"text":"and they're like, I'm not here as a hot dog. I'm super, I'm two, damn, MM1, DMA, one, guys, but check in and deny. Check in and deny. I'm in, I'm coming. Burn it to your audio. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh. K-R-9, R-K-R-9, R-K-R-9. K-R-9, R-K-R-9. Oh, OK. There you go. Suck. Rosen has eleven seconds left. Well, that's worth your predicted. Oh, OH, OK. appear only now because this is using random audio samples Turkey. DOX. OK. Suck in and see. Ah, there you go. Yeah, that's just right. Oh, OK. Yea ah, Suck. Oh, that's a great break. Oh, okay, it's cool. Okay, we just got in there. Okay, we can get that in there."},{"confidence":0.6629682083924611,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:12:18.775771+00:00","id":359529,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384183,"text":"Okay, here's your VH. Here's your card. Here's the guru on YouTube here. If you could tell me what a nice screw up. Let's see. There we go. There we go. Okay, I think we got audio back. Those of you all on YouTube. Thank you. Let's see. Okay, gotcha. Oh, great. Great behind you. You can hear me."},{"confidence":0.5367442684041129,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:11:57.563495+00:00","id":359528,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384182,"text":"SpaceX successfully launched the Starlink Group 15-15 mission on a Falcon 9 Friday, October 23rd at 1648 Mountain Daylight Time, the launch departed SLC4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, 27 Starlink version 2 minis. Joined the Starlink Mega constellation in low Earth orbit. It was Booster B-1063's 36th flight and recovery. It was SpaceX's 730th successful launch and the 250th orbital launch of 2026. It was a beautiful blue sky daylight launch from Vandenberg. Saturday, October 25th at 2003 Mountain Daylight Time, China's CASC launch. NASA Jetnet, Galileo Group 28."},{"confidence":0.6716289851400588,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:11:55.531024+00:00","id":359527,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384181,"text":"Friday October 23rd at 0450 Mountain Daylight Time China Aerospace and Science Operations Sea. You now gain a 50-0-3 mission on a long March 6-day rocket. Departing GI-1 satellite to launch center China, the satellite is a remote sensing satellite for the Chinese military. It's a retrograde to lower authority. So Friday October 24th at 1325 Mountain Daylight Time, CAAC launched the Yaugan 53-0-7, 7-9, and the 56-19-21 missions on a long March 4-B rocket from site 94 G-1 satellite launch center China, the Chinese military satellites deployed to a war."},{"confidence":0.6526845338252875,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:09:59.952848+00:00","id":359526,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384180,"text":"different equipment and challenges, but the same need to understand a failure before deciding what to do next. This Saturday night, years after those Halloween tests, take a moment to remember where JPL story began. With a motor held firmly on the ground, remember the people taking cover around a makeshift and virtual extension stand. That afternoon they had a burned hose on finished work, and every reason to wonder whether any of this would amount too much. They couldn't have known that generations eventually followed them. On that day, people would gather around pictures arriving from Jupiter and other planets on the very site their vision created. Hollywood never bought their story, but there you are, now years later looking at it at the world through the eyes of a spacecraft."},{"confidence":0.8567834049463272,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:09:57.728221+00:00","id":359525,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384179,"text":"found in some of you may know Leonardo Journal which connects art science and technology. That term is still published today check your local newsstands if you're interested. So the man who once tried to finance science to creating a movie finds another way to bring imagination and engineering together. So what connects that dry wash or Oio's Seaco to the distance spacecraft? Questions and experiment can answer. How much thrust for how long what failed what needs to change? Data experiments etc. We followed engineers confronting an antenna challenge that wouldn't open on the way to Jupiter. So it wouldn't surprise a test on Earth 90 years ago this Halloween. Different generations very"},{"confidence":0.3974259222547213,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:09:55.493307+00:00","id":359524,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384178,"text":"Later in 1958 JPL helped send Explorer 1 America's first satellite into orbit. Later that year it became part of the ship. Over the following decades its spacecraft turned distant points of light into places we can examine much more closely. Galileo at Jupiter, as we discussed last week, Voyager at the giant planet and beyond, explored on Mars. And beyond those machines a challenge every radio operator can appreciate. Getting there is only part of the mission. Getting the information home after you, Frank Malin has own story, takes another direction. After the war he moves to Paris and works at the International Scientific Cooperation. He turns on creating changing patterns with moving mechanisms with light and moving mechanisms. And in 1968 he turns on creating changing patterns with moving mechanisms. And in 1968 he turns on creating changing patterns with moving mechanisms. And in 1968 he turns on creating changing patterns with moving mechanisms. And in 1968 he turns on creating changing patterns with moving mechanisms. And in 1968 he turns on creating changing patterns with moving mechanisms. And in 1968 he turns on creating changing patterns with moving mechanisms. And in 1968 he turns on creating changing patterns with moving mechanisms. And in 1968 he turns on creating changing patterns with moving mechanisms. And in 1968 he turns on creating changing patterns with moving mechanisms. And in 1968 he turns on creating changing patterns with moving mechanisms. And in 1968 he turns on creating changing patterns with moving mechanisms. And in 1968 he turns on creating changing patterns with moving mechanisms. And in 1968 he turns on creating changing patterns with moving mechanisms."},{"confidence":0.9016472026705742,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:09:50.980148+00:00","id":359523,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384177,"text":"Under Von Carmen's guidance, the group develops rocket motors for Cheto that's jet-assisted takeoff program. Despite the name, the extra push does not come from jets. It comes from rockets, is the plan. The airplane keeps its regular end. The rockets provide a temporary boost. So now rocketry has a customer with a specific job to accomplish. And I would say deep pockets. The military's support helps operations grow. In 1943, the name jet propulsion laboratory first appears. JPL spends years developing missiles for the Army. Its transformation into a Center for Planetary Exploration will take action. It is the work of many more people."},{"confidence":0.7849368559704586,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:09:48.896048+00:00","id":359522,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384176,"text":"a fictional rocket adventure and used the proceeds to fund the real one. Historian Greg Pendle found their manuscript decades later. He reports that they worked on it every Monday night for at least a year. Imagine the commitment of these gentlemen. Calculations, rocket tests, paying jobs, and then on the opposite, trying to get better luck. Something to send off to Metro Golden Mare. That said, MGM isn't interested. The movie doesn't get made, but as it turns out, the rockets do anyways. So, as the story goes, the Army Air Corps has problems. How do we help help reload their runways? They became aware of these folks out there screwing around at Caltech."},{"confidence":0.6453377934438842,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:09:46.630018+00:00","id":359521,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384175,"text":"They nicknamed these folks the Suicide Squad. The chemical leak helps explain why. It makes the colorful chapter heading today. It was considerably less charming if you worked down the hall from these folks, but another problem keeps returning and it makes no noise at all. That problem isn't explosions and rocket engine upset, it's money. Molina and Parsons decide they need to make something because they were running out of funding. So they decided to try Hollywood, which at the time, you know, think about this, you find people are making movies. They decided to generate a script of their own. So these would be rocket scientists write a movie story about young rocket researchers, dangerous intrigue and plans that must be kept from the Nazis. They were trying to sell it."},{"confidence":0.7818563692271709,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:09:43.917450+00:00","id":359520,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384174,"text":"fuel, but it's the combustion and an oxygen-rich environment the rubber hose can burn fiercely. And it did. The test did not work further. It still burned hoses, part of the form and replaced the rubber lines with copper tubing. By late November, the motor runs for 20 seconds kind of a success compared to the Halloween experiment. By January, 44 seconds, producing between five and eight pounds of thrust. Now they have something they can measure, compare, and improve. They changed the experiment before they tried again, and again and again. Later experiments on the Caltech campus earned the group its nickname because things did not perfectly change the entire time. The other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other time, the other"},{"confidence":0.5759256969798695,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:09:39.339461+00:00","id":359519,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384173,"text":"So, if our immediate destination isn't the moon or anyplace else, it's rather just connected to this data on a piece of glass. So, they get things lined, they take cover, first attempt, nothing, second attempt, nothing, third attempt is still nothing. The oxygen flow keeps blowing out the ignition fuse. On the floor, the two outside the motor and the second attempt is going to be a little bit more. The second attempt is going to be a little bit more. The second attempt is going to be a little bit more. The second attempt is going to be a little bit more. The second attempt is going to be a little bit more."},{"confidence":0.974202714767307,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:09:37.243205+00:00","id":359518,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384172,"text":"below the San Gabriel Mountains. Their motor burns, methyl alcohol with gaseous oxygen is the plan. What does a rocket push against an empty space? It accelerates exhaust in one direction, and the rocket is pushed in the other, carrying its fuel, and oxidizer means it doesn't need outside air to keep burning. But these men aren't exactly going anywhere yet. Their motor has mounted on a test stand with its nozzle pointing upward. This is the test. Folks, this isn't a rocket engine. We want to see what it can do. The exhaust goes up, thrust is down. A recording mechanism is going to scratch the results under a rotating glass drum. Before they can trust a rocket to carry it in its room, in its room, what a rocket might actually do. You got to remember, this is the beginning, folks."},{"confidence":0.9368845702459415,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:09:34.263255+00:00","id":359517,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384171,"text":"on a campus of Caltech. Some encouragement from Caltech aerodynamicist Theodore von Karman, who helped them to get started with some of their interests. Other colleagues also joining the effort, but the encouragement does not buy valves and other equipment. These guys had to scavenge equipment, stretch their earnings, and work around paying jobs. If you've ever built a station or have a project work of your own going on, times you do things one could get at a time. You could kind of understand these young men in their situation. The bills get paid first, the experiment gets what's left. So on October 31st, the team brings its equipment to the Arroyo Sico Dry Wash."},{"confidence":0.9195801414111081,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:09:31.867620+00:00","id":359516,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384170,"text":"For that, first Halloween wasn't to launch a rocket, however. It was to make a simple measurement. I say simple. Not really simple, but they were to make a measurement. So the place is back in California. It's 1936. Frank Molina, at that time Frank was 24-year-old as a Caltech graduate student. And having red jewels burned, he imagined space travel and had decided he wanted to put rocket propulsion on a specific footing, not just something in the fiction. Jack Morrison, a friend, brings practical experience with explosives and fascination with rocket fuels background. And Ed Forman, who was a kid turned, used into hardware. Theory, chemistry, and craftsmanship show up."},{"confidence":0.8454064130783081,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:09:29.596034+00:00","id":359515,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384169,"text":"the base crafted Jupiter and some of its pioneers tried to sell a Hollywood movie. And before that, actually, some of their own rocket equipment on fire, not intentionally. And this Saturday, the JBL celebrates that Halloween experiment as its 90th birthday. Most institutions celebrate today that somebody signed a paperwork and made things legal. This one celebrates the day that the experimenters had to run. Last week, we heard how engineers rescued the Galileo observing the deep space probe after its main antenna refused to open. If you were listening in last week, you got to hear that fun story. Tonight, we're going back to the beginnings of the laboratory that built the Galileo and many others."},{"confidence":0.725445187904618,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:09:27.111292+00:00","id":359514,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384168,"text":"work and a special hello to my local group all of you connecting in through the whiskey ate whiskey, Kilo Yankee repeater in Doyle's town, Ohio. So, sit back, I've titled tonight's excursion to the past the day the rocket men ran, the humble beginnings of the jet propulsion laboratory. Okay, let's get into this little mention of the outset that Bernice takes his list of check-ins every week and sends it to the JPL as part of a public outreach program. So, if you have checked into the net, you're on a list that goes to the JPL and we're about to get into their history. So, this might be fun. And it does go to Halloween as part of their origin story. This is the probable beginning of the JPL before they sent"},{"confidence":0.8209919280683001,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:09:24.549350+00:00","id":359513,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384167,"text":"Tonight's history lesson. Give me a chance to catch up. I can see who's new and who's not. W2JLS, good evening to John. What have you got for history for tonight? Go ahead. This is John W2JLS, submitting from Farrahon, Ohio, with this week in space in astronomy history. It's October 27th, 2026. A very good evening on your years to all. I'll leave a hand out there to burn his KI-0-A-R, burn him up for air, sir, out there at Mission Control. Not sure what happened to Ed tonight. I hope if you're listening, everything's going smoothly, maybe you're in your commute. Anyway, looks like he got that night off one way or the other. And to all of everyone listening across to Colorado astronomy net on the sky, up like net."},{"confidence":0.6550532504916191,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:09:21.522622+00:00","id":359512,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384166,"text":"new on YouTube. So welcome, welcome over there. I appreciate you having there call signs as well. Those of you who are new, again my name is Pernus this is probably a beautiful Romeo November Echo Sierra Sierra. And a call sign killed on a new Zero Alpha Romeo. You are new to the net. Now please post over there. I'll look back at if you're what your interest background in astronomy is. Whether you're just starting out or you've been doing it for decades or somewhere in between. If you like astrophotography or or deep space observing or anything like that you can post that too. Or you're just interested in satellites or what have you. Definitely like to pass that along. So I think I've got everybody up. Go ahead and call on John W2JLS for"},{"confidence":0.7217035926878452,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:09:18.741415+00:00","id":359511,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384165,"text":"I think I've got everybody checked in over there. Oh, there we go. We've got another call sign over there on YouTube that I didn't see. We've got that. Kyle, we've got your list. KJ7, Z, thanks for checking in tonight. Got you over there on YouTube. So, yeah, that's a new call. Kyle, welcome to the Colorado astronomy net over on the... What do you have come from? It's a really Utah. So, that's cool."},{"confidence":0.7397975102066994,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:09:09.607751+00:00","id":359510,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384164,"text":"Alright, Bob, yeah, if, let's see if you want to check out, there's a YouTube video, the origin of JPL, HiPost. I think over tonight also posted the link in the letter, and it's also on the webpage as well. For my newsletter webpage on there as well, you can check that's an hour and a half. I did watch it a while ago when I posted it, definitely an interesting story there. We don't have the hour and a half, so I do appreciate John's 10 minutes, so it helps us with that for sure. Hi, Bob, appreciate your comments, appreciate you checking in tonight. Next on the list, John in Texas, and live, and EIQ, good evening to you, boys."},{"confidence":0.5753704355313227,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:07:56.661908+00:00","id":359509,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384163,"text":"We've got Marcus over on YouTube, KF00, ZMV. You've got anything for us, definitely post that. And in Erica, also a new check-in over on YouTube, up in Washington. I'm going to go ahead and check it out. If you've got any comments or anything like that, you can post them as well. You can welcome my cousin aboard. I'm a bad influence. I've got lots of people I talk to about this. Next on the list is David, up in Ohio. Good evening to David, what have you got for that tonight? Go ahead."},{"confidence":0.6257194046463286,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:02:45.178277+00:00","id":359508,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384162,"text":"Okay, Lee, over on YouTube, KF-0 SIO, actually CSU Blublow Observatory Caretaker. JPL history, I did a video and talks about that. Great, my focus is Earth, Moon, Sun, and the football between the relationships therein. All right, Lee, I appreciate you passing that along. Yeah, it's interesting being the caretaker of an observatory for sure. I think I mentioned the last time I ran the observatory at Virginia Tech for a year, the physics lab tech and classes out there and took care of it as well. So definitely it can relate. So hopefully you're doing exactly this. I appreciate you checking."},{"confidence":0.828357458114624,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:02:17.934062+00:00","id":359507,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384161,"text":"I'm going to go on the audio. I turned that off. I started turning that on. Wait a second."},{"confidence":0.7471343521028757,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:01:46.833128+00:00","id":359506,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384160,"text":"You bet. If there's a DX station out there, check into the Colorado astronomy net. I will definitely make some room for you and take any DX stations wishing to check into the Colorado astronomy net. Please call with your call sign phonetically twice. You guys listen up as well and we'll work on that if it's a weak signal or DX station trying to check in. Please call with your call sign phonetically twice. Hi, this is Victor uniform 3 tango brow romeo. I repeat Victor uniform 3 tango brow brow romeo handle balla brow alpha lema alpha brow alpha lema alpha some India south India. I was the discord you know group"},{"confidence":0.9410450431077104,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:01:44.813151+00:00","id":359505,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384159,"text":"can print out on a nice 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper and get a relative idea. My ISS is passing through. This particular one, November 4th, October 4th, October 3, October 3, October 3, October 3, October 3, October 3, October 3, October 3, October 3, October 3, October 3, October 3, October 3, October 3, The office has a lot of words to originate in the site guide."},{"confidence":0.3188860217730204,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:01:38.052838+00:00","id":359504,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384158,"text":"This particular site for, if you're interested in IFF passes over your local area, you may want to check out this particular website at www.heavens-above.com. That's www.heavens-above.com. Sign up and log in and enter in your home coordinates for more accurate timings and the positioning of the IFF. On this particular page I am only showing a visible process over the Denver area and I'm looking for any of them that look fairly decent for the next 10 days. The one thing I will talk about this particular website is when I click on a particular date, I get a nice big star chart that I can see."},{"confidence":0.6545184195041657,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:01:35.245113+00:00","id":359503,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384157,"text":"Hello, I'm Daniel over in Tiwili, Utah. Welcome to the Colorado Astronomy Net. For those of you who are new, my name again is Bernice. This is probably a beautiful Romeo November, Ecos Sierra Sierra, and the call is signed to the 1-India-Zero Alfa Romeo. Welcome to the Net. Do appreciate that. Any of you who are new to the Net, if you post over there what your experience is in astronomy, if you're starting out, that's great. If you've been doing it for decades, that's great, too. This is a learning net, so everybody is learning, including me. And I'm running a long winded tonight. Let me see. All right, I'd like to share this particular website. I have to clean some of this stuff up."},{"confidence":0.8817909767230352,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:01:32.706549+00:00","id":359502,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384156,"text":"do certainly appreciate that. Oh, there we go. We added some of that. Craig did first that and needed to get my first help out of the table, but still able to operate a telescope. You betcha there, Craig. Get that scope out and take a look for sure. All right. Oh, I've seen that one. I think I've seen that call before as well. That's 8G7G. Oh, thank you, Tom. Well, on YouTube. I know. I think you've checked in before. Let me make sure."},{"confidence":0.5824733268130909,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:01:30.621019+00:00","id":359501,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384155,"text":"All right, Jason, we got you on the list. Thanks for that. Okay, I have zero NCG for checking in tonight. All right, those of you who are new on YouTube, I don't think I saw any new calls. I just want to recognize that. But let's see. But definitely, those are not just chasing KS0 and ZG. Thanks for that. Anybody that's new to Colorado is trying to be that over on YouTube. If you post for me, what your interest background is in astronomy, whether you're just starting out or you've been doing this for quite some time."},{"confidence":0.6616611737344,"created_at":"2026-10-28T04:01:28.346397+00:00","id":359500,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384154,"text":"Okay, Doc, we've got you on the last N60 DR. Thanks for checking in tonight. All right. All right. All right. Over there on YouTube. All right. Let's see. 2WR 863. Is that a call slide? If it's, yeah, I'd love to get your name in relation to this. I know on YouTube. That's fine too, but definitely a name and location of us. You can post that over there. Okay. There we go. There we go. KM-0-Z-C-F."},{"confidence":0.909654532559216,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:59:24.931857+00:00","id":359499,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384153,"text":"on par with an actual Ambi stick. So for those of you, however, the option to use an Ambi stick or an Ambi server is still there in QSO1 and will remain there. I know people like their stuff. I'm not going to take it away from them. But if you're worried about that, try the new QSO1 codec when connecting to DMR, DStar, etc. And I think you'll be surprised at how good it sounds. Anyway, thanks for the question. Back to that control. This is KDA JKK. All right, Frank, thanks for the answer there. And this is Scott and 7 FGP in James 10, New York. Let's go to Joshua, KJ5IRQ. What's your question for tonight?"},{"confidence":0.7020998418331146,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:59:04.739267+00:00","id":359498,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384152,"text":"So viewers will see it move within your field of view in just a few minutes of observation. So you may still see it, but it's definitely dimmed quite a bit. The moon will definitely interfere with viewing this particular comment. And that is it for the local astronomical news. This is KI-0 AR net control for Colorado Astronomy net."},{"confidence":0.7316883305708568,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:59:03.369988+00:00","id":359497,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384151,"text":"is still active this month. This meteor shower is active from September 10th through November 20th. Maximum occurred. Very few of these, my summary rate was around five. The meteor's are described more slowly than typical meteor's make some prime subjects for imaging and doing some of these. I'm not very many of them for sure. You'll be lucky to spot these. We do have a couple of projects we want to see. The partly ira is shining around the 9th to 10th magnitude, probably around 10th magnitude at this point, passing through the constellation of Aquarius. I get away from city lights to see this comet blowing green from the inner coma. This comet is moving fast about 15 seconds of volume."},{"confidence":0.553846157514132,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:59:01.243900+00:00","id":359496,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384150,"text":"We did this through the concurrence of the new shower, a peak back on early October 9th. It was covered in a period of October 6th to 10th, so we're not going to see any more of those. We do have some trailing rhinos. The duration of this shower extends from October 15th, 29th, the maximum occurring on the morning of October 21st. We just passed that maximum and that was just the last week. We've got to see any of the rhinos. I'd love to hear some of the observation reports you might want to pass along a little bit later on. The maximum of hours around 20 and the meteors are described as fast. We do have this southern torus."},{"confidence":0.7181235189948763,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:58:47.114229+00:00","id":359495,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384149,"text":"Alright Jeff, yeah, there's some good YouTube videos on how to clean a mirror, but yeah, distilled water, cotton balls, a very delicate touch, a very mild soap and water mixture as well, and distilled water to rinse that off so you don't get the spots and things like that, but yeah, I've done a couple of things too in the past and just be careful with it and clean it off, that shouldn't get the dust off, no hard rubbing, I think you know that already, but for sure, just take care of that and appreciate you sharing that with us, 12-inch, that's a good size mirror for sure."},{"confidence":0.7366090079148611,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:57:16.244188+00:00","id":359494,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384148,"text":"Connect Radio Club and an AWRL special interest group focused on teaching and learning. Invite you and your members to the annual breakfast at the November 7th at the Bridge Church at Bear Creek. And there is a website that you can look up. I'm going to send this email out to the email list. And, Furnace, if you would mind announcing this on the next Colorado astronomy net before November 7th. So guys, watch your email for that. And if you're not on the Skylink email list, be sure to go to the website and get on that for all our special announcements and all that kind of things. So, Furnace with that back to net control. And yes, I'll be flying somewhere tomorrow night in my live stream. I don't know where, but we'll figure that out on my YouTube channel. Furnace, have a good night. 7-3 from K-Zero VH and Wheat Ridge."},{"confidence":0.5403690290238177,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:57:13.498582+00:00","id":359493,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384147,"text":"for the latest information on stuff going on. And don't forget too, we have our on our repeaters page. We have kind of our site status listing down on the page. And if you ever hear a repeater that is not operating or you think something's going on with it, we'd appreciate you letting us know. I'm easy to add on those. We're going to send this out to the email list. I'd like to make everybody aware of it. Maybe you could announce it here over the next week or so. How often do you get to watch a hand radio transmitter lift off for the edge of space and then follow it up to the circle below? I don't know. I'm not sure if you've got to watch it. I'm not sure if you've got to watch it. I'm sure you've got to watch it. I'm sure you've got to watch it. I'm sure you've got to watch it on the screen. I'm sure you've got to watch it on the screen. I'm sure you've got to watch it on the screen. I'm sure you've got to watch it on the screen. I'm sure you've got to watch it on the screen. I'm sure you've got to watch it on the screen. I'm sure you've got to watch it on the screen. I'm sure you've got to watch it on the screen. I'm sure you've got to watch it on the screen. I'm sure you've got to watch it on the screen. I'm sure you've got to watch it on the screen."},{"confidence":0.7275990573689342,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:57:08.758395+00:00","id":359492,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384146,"text":"I did forget one of them, apologies. We don't have, let's see, I missed that one over on YouTube. KM0, WXE, Daniel, we got you on the list. Thanks for that. A lot of several new over there on YouTube, so welcome. I'd appreciate that on both here over the air and on YouTube as well. Now is the time for everyone else to contribute to the net. The questions, comments, anything you'd like to pass along to the net? I'll have to raise your reports as well. Now is the time to do it. First on the list tonight is Jack, K-E-0-V-H. But you think you, Jack, what have you got for the net tonight? Go ahead. Yeah, hey, Bernice, hey, good evening, and we're at the net here on Sky Hub Link. Guys, always make sure you check out the website."},{"confidence":0.6935245584357869,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:57:05.529312+00:00","id":359491,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384145,"text":"Okay, I think I got everybody marked on YouTube. It's a time for everyone else to contribute to the net. Questions, comments, observation, reports, anything you'd like to pass along to the net? Now's the time to do it. All right, I got some memories over there on YouTube, so I'd appreciate everybody checking in. And maybe you can keep no callsite, no callsite yet. I think Jack and I are going to work on you for that. I'm looking back to see if there's any other posts of somebody new over there. But not quite yet. All right, no, let's see. I do."},{"confidence":0.6279206896821659,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:57:03.461460+00:00","id":359490,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384144,"text":"higher in all of our routes, we just about 173 miles to 280 kilometers across its widest. If the asteroid proved to be an ancient planetesimal metallic core, it could offer a one-of-a-kind window into the interior of rocky planets like Earth. The Mars Blymai was an incredible opportunity for the team to calibrate instruments and practice procedures for a planetary encounter ahead of arriving at the asteroid, Psyche Sid Linde, Elkins, Stanton, principal investigator for the Psyche mission at the University of California, Berkeley. Now we are confident deeper into the solar system, powered by the sunlight, ready to explore a mysterious new world in the asteroid belt. And that's it for the bulletin for this evening. This is K.I. So I are next."},{"confidence":0.5732812782128651,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:57:01.126822+00:00","id":359489,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384143,"text":"for several minutes to remove the momentum that built up in the reaction wheels. For propulsion engineer, it's a fun thing that you can only measure this torque in space and not on Earth. It's so small to the side of the system that's been able to measure this effect on the thrust or as a function of power level and of operating. It works much longer in space. The side of the spacecraft is in a system that's cruising with the compass. It arrives in 2020. The spacecraft will move itself into orbit around the asteroids."},{"confidence":0.7582570791244507,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:56:58.894516+00:00","id":359488,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384142,"text":"The slightly menstrual support costs are consistent with management, since it's privilege it's high Andrew's. This is a product Santiago City. Something west or north? Where do you want to be? can create a space craft or twisting force and an air-left punch to the caterpillar with a space craft, pointing to the common structure of the excess angular momentum it generates. This liking space craft relies on reaction wheels to change their spin rate. After several hours, engineers command the space craft to turn off its thrusters, rotate, and then run a different thruster at low power in a different direction."},{"confidence":0.9322212617844343,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:56:55.133915+00:00","id":359487,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384141,"text":"planetary space. At its maximum speed during cruise, the slide key spacecraft will be traveling more than 100,000 miles per hour, or 160,900 kilometers per hour relative to an observer on Earth. The spacecraft uses its two fly panel cross-shaped solar arrays with a sunlight collecting area of 800 square feet or about 75 square meters to generate electricity to charge its batteries and power its system, including the propulsion system. The spacecraft lost with nearly 2400 pounds or 1090 kilograms of xenon and seven fuel tanks. In the three years since launch, it has used about one third of that supply, leaving plenty to reach its target and assist the spacecraft at orbit at the asteroid's flight by two"},{"confidence":0.8841049244458026,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:56:52.908548+00:00","id":359486,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384140,"text":"We have thrusters on large quantities of fuel to provide powerful bursts of thrust for relatively short periods of time. The Viking spacecraft's solar-powered propulsion system uses electric fields to steadily deliver up to 2,500 million newtons of force. About the amount of force that you would feel from the weight of holding one AA battery. The electric field system relies on a mechanism known as the Hall effect, in which charged atoms or ions of the inert gas xenon are expelled to create thrust and a bright blue glow. Each of the four thrusters operates one at a time, though the thrust is tiny, it builds up over the course of the journey, enabling the spacecraft to gain speed as it travels through a..."},{"confidence":0.838147179223597,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:56:50.666579+00:00","id":359485,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384139,"text":"It's now paddle to the metal to the asteroid psyche, said Don Hahn. The psyche missions navigation lead at NASA's set propulsion laboratory in Southern California, which is managed for the two-way. We'll be running out of proportion system every other opportunity, causing only for necessary training activities, so it's the spotters where we offer us a thousand times from now until we reach that point. The xenon propeller efficiency. We're a conventional spacecraft."},{"confidence":0.878346536308527,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:56:49.108846+00:00","id":359484,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384138,"text":"Its gravity is in its rear view where NASA's Psyche spacecraft has fired up its thrusters and is accelerating to the metal-rich asteroid of the same name. During the first leg of its journey, the flight flight free launch, the mission used its electric propulsion system intermittently to maneuver to the right place for harnessing Mars gravity for a propellant-saving speed boost and a slight trajectory change. On September 28, the spacecraft began to use its propulsion system nearly continuously, causing just once each flight, just once each week to check in with the mission controllers on Earth. This keeps the mission on track for Toronto with the asteroid Psyche in the main asteroid now by the summer of 2020."},{"confidence":0.7418584227561951,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:56:46.992682+00:00","id":359483,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384137,"text":"There you go. Post that. That's definitely new over there. So those of you who are new, again, if you post out whether you're just starting out or you've been doing it with astronomy, definitely I like to pass that along to the rest of the folks here. All right. This is KI-0 AR, neck control for the Colorado astronomer. Got an item from Jeff propulsion laboratory tonight. They did october 22nd. The space is used. It's solar and electric for 90% of its crews until it reaches the asteroid psyche in the summer of 2029. With a successful Mars."},{"confidence":0.7209772397490108,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:56:44.609027+00:00","id":359482,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384136,"text":"The ISS passes. I got a short bulletin. We have a rocket report and we have a short history tonight as well. I haven't seen it. It'll be a 6RDC check-in, so I may be doing that. We'll have to see a little bit later. But after that, we go down the list. I get to talk to everybody. So please stand by for that for sure. And if you've got any questions or reports, we'll be discussing that just a little bit. So please, if you can stick around, please stick around for sure. We've got Timmy over from Kentucky over on YouTube. Timmy, if you've got a call sign, if you post that, if you don't have a call sign, that's line two, where in Kentucky particularly."},{"confidence":0.8643925152719021,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:56:41.370145+00:00","id":359481,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384135,"text":"Please charge me. Hi, you bet Doc. Yeah, fine business there. We'll be going down the list a little bit later on. We have a rock report. We have a short history report. We've got a short bulletin tonight. I don't actually have a wallet. It may be longer. I'll have to check and see. Yeah, that's not too bad. I've got a bulletin for this evening. For those of you who are new to the net, the way I run this is obviously I've gone over the local astronomical news. What's up for the night, guys?"},{"confidence":0.7816381317563355,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:56:39.385703+00:00","id":359480,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384134,"text":"and Saturn is still at its place for the year this month. I'll look for Saturn towards the east and the evening sky after sunset and follow it across the night sky. Ah, oh, oh, night. Saturn is in the constellation of Cetus, and that's kind of low towards the south. So you should be able to see it without straightening your neck eye overhead for sure. But definitely just a binoculars or a telescope on Saturn right now while it's at its best."},{"confidence":0.8989561282098293,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:56:36.281387+00:00","id":359479,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384133,"text":"on the morning of the 11th, and that was well before dawn. Mars, Mars, and the cosplay of cancer into Leo shining at magnitude 1.0. We got Jupiter rising about 12.15 a.m. of this whole nine month, and Jupiter is visible to the southeast in the morning. But Jupiter was accounted by the moon back on the 6th. That means that the moon passed in front of Jupiter on that morning. That occurred over the eastern part of the US. Jupiter is in the cosplay of Leo shining at magnitude minus 1.9. And we had Saturn, Saturn was in opposition on the 4th, rising as the sun sets. Saturn is now rising about 345."},{"confidence":0.8629547485283443,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:56:34.224832+00:00","id":359478,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384132,"text":"This is K.I.Zoo. I am at control for Colorado. Anyway, Halloween evening. Set your clocks back. Daylight saving time ends for Monday, U.S. at 2 a.m. local time November 1. So definitely set your clocks back Halloween night after all those trick-or-treaters have come by and left your doorstep set that clock back. Alright, we go back to standard next week. Alright, we got Mars rising about 11.42 p.m. by month. So it has returned into the late evening, but it won't be high enough to spot the clock at midnight for a car to the south in the early morning hours before sunrise. Mars transited the behind cluster."},{"confidence":0.9214219972491264,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:56:32.011240+00:00","id":359477,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384131,"text":"After conjunction, Venus has returned to the morning sky, rising about 5.2 AM by month end. Look for Venus to the west. Let's see, we won't see it. So Venus is basically lost in the early twilight glow before sunrise. Venus is in the constellation of Virgo, shining at magnitude minus 4.8. So probably it'll slightly dimmer than that. But we'll be shining. You might be able to see it in the early AM hours right this week. But it'll be way too close to the sun. So you don't want to look at the sun."},{"confidence":0.824217626452446,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:56:29.939653+00:00","id":359476,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384130,"text":"The dimness object that the human eye can see is about 6 magnitude greater than that. You will need monoculars or telescope. So a magnitude 7 object is 2.5 times dimmer than a magnitude 6 object. Well a magnitude 5 object is 2.5 times brighter. Anything less than 6 you should be able to see with the naked eye. I do suggest you put monoculars or telescope on those objects and get all the details. The magnitude scale is set up so that every 5 magnitude in difference is an increase or a decrease of about 100 times in brightness. We have seen that this saw was at inferior conjunction on the 23rd meaning that it was between us and the sun."},{"confidence":0.7136807858943939,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:56:25.540678+00:00","id":359475,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384129,"text":"Okay, oh, we got Mercury. How was that greatest easel, sewn on Gayshine or east of the sun? How about on the 12th it was about as high as it was going to get in the western sky on that particular date. Mercury will be setting about flying away PM by month and Mercury as visible. Was visible for Mercury as too close to the sun to be spotted for the rest of the month. Mercury moves from the constellation of Virgo into Libra, shining at magnitude 0.1 on the 15th. A quick tutorial on magnitude. The magnitude scale is an in-between scale, meaning as the magnitude go up. The apparent brightness of an object decreases by a factor of about 2.5."},{"confidence":0.9972915826365352,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:52:11.837514+00:00","id":359474,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384127,"text":"It just depends on where you want to use it. If you want to use it on Windows, start there. If you like it, you want to bring it to your phone. It's super easy to transfer it over. But I wouldn't say one is easier than the other. I'd say there, just since it's the same app and almost the same UI, it's super simple on both."},{"confidence":0.9146055823657662,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:50:45.346801+00:00","id":359473,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384126,"text":"And finally, dust off your space debris umbrellas and keep them handy, ARS technical reports. September 15, China launched a payload to orbit on the Zucway to rocket launch from Zucwan, a launch facility in the Gobi Desert. China de-overted the spent booster over the US prior to making one orbit, media posts. So a fiery reentry debris was on the Minnesota circular metal object, 11 feet in diameter, landed in a Minnesota farmer's cornfield. And that is it. There's a lot of stuff for that showing the debris and the rocket report link. I'll go ahead and post that over there. And the AI another day,"},{"confidence":0.5924183968454599,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:50:41.760365+00:00","id":359472,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384125,"text":"Now, I saw officially ended the 21-year-long Neil Carroll Swift Observatory Science Mission. This is the X-ray Gamma-ray VAD gamma-ray first. The light spacecraft of the Swift Boost mission failed to dock with the Swift Telescope and raises the game. And solar activity was the Swift Telescope to lose altitude rapidly, thus creating severe atmospheric drag that makes scientific observation impossible. Swift's primary mission was designed for two years and ran more than 21 years. Now, since this tally runs to more than 2,000 gamma-ray bursts, more than 1,400 supernovae, stars drawn apart by black holes, comets, asteroids, and about 7,000 published papers have built on data."},{"confidence":0.5465062168928293,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:49:24.955792+00:00","id":359471,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384124,"text":"The Saturn reached opposition this month, putting on a fine show, still puts on a fine show. Mercury briefly visible in early October. It's now returned to the evening skies. We got Venus is also, excuse me, Mercury has returned to the morning sky and Venus is going to be doing that as well. So, as I've already done that as well, returned to the morning sky. So, I'm just kind of, Neptune is, lingers near Saturn and Uranus is well placed between the Pleiades and Elteveron. Mars makes magnificent transit of the B.I. That's already done. Jupiter dominates the morning sky and, under goes a lunar occultation already done. All the ad libs there was excerpt from Australia."},{"confidence":0.8724724159521215,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:49:22.334688+00:00","id":359470,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384123,"text":"Go ahead and get into the local astronomical news for the end of October. So we're wrapping up October. We'll start with the moon. Let's see. We had a last quarter moon back on the third. New moon was on the tenth. First quarter moon was on the 18th. We had a full moon yesterday. So hopefully you got out to see the full moon. So we'll have a whole new bright moon tonight as well. So check that out. The moon was at Apigee as far as this point away from the Earth back on the 16th. It was 251,434 miles from Earth. The moon will be at energy as close as opposed to the Earth this month. On the 28th it will be 226,433 miles from Earth. The commentary highlights for October. We've missed some of these."},{"confidence":0.7778673516586423,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:49:19.096772+00:00","id":359469,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384122,"text":"Testing over on the YouTube. Do I have the audio back over? Okay. All right. There we go. All right. I need to turn off here. So I don't know what's going on with that. I've got a few things that are hooked up. All right. Good. Thanks for that. Well, I haven't gotten into the program yet, so it's just all the basic announcements and stuff like that. All right. This is KI-0A, our neck control for Colorado Astronomy Net. And... Oh, we got... Mary, V-E-3A-O-A. Thanks for checking in tonight over on YouTube there, so to appreciate that."},{"confidence":0.9546867124736309,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:47:35.249088+00:00","id":359468,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384121,"text":"Okay, this is KI-Zero AR Net Control for Colorado Astronomy Net."},{"confidence":0.5370288391908009,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:47:34.606605+00:00","id":359467,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384120,"text":"On Mondays and Wednesdays you may want to check out Jack's Flight Sim channel YouTube Captain Jack's Flight Sim on Mondays and Wednesdays at 6.30 pm Mountain Time at 6.30 pm until landing. Always interesting flights that he puts on simulations for a great group of guys, Flannel on with us as well. Flight Simmers, Amateur Radio operators as well those that are just interested in Flannel on. Welcome to Join Jack Mondays and Wednesdays. Alright Mark we got you on the list KCAF QB thanks for your attention. Let me post over there."},{"confidence":0.9858586611226201,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:47:05.859165+00:00","id":359466,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384119,"text":"back up over on youtube uh... uh... all of those of you are listening on the radio up we stand by"},{"confidence":0.8635321316810755,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:47:05.143991+00:00","id":359465,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384118,"text":"Where do they go? Where do they go? Okay. Greg, overall on a YouTube. Just. All right. All right. My cut in place isn't working over there. Oh, I might have to type these in myself. I'm going to call these this evening. All right. Let me just give me a bear with me. Let me see if I can get the audio."},{"confidence":0.7657372628649076,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:47:03.568103+00:00","id":359464,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384117,"text":"Okay, I'm not in control of Colorado astronomy, let's see. We got the K-E-0 VH, Jack, thanks for checking in tonight. Oh, we got Doug, 0-A-P-P, Jack and In tonight, John, W-2-J-L-S, thanks for checking in tonight. We got Paul, W-A7-G-V-L, thanks for checking in tonight. We got Robert, how is he? That's Bob, Bob, K-A-A-A-A-L-Y-J, thanks for checking in tonight. Boy, N5-G-I-Q, thanks for checking in tonight. And we got the K-I-7-P-K-L, thanks for checking in tonight. Thanks everybody that's checked in so far via Netlogger. Oh, let's see."},{"confidence":0.5908346176147461,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:46:56.292770+00:00","id":359463,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384116,"text":"Click K&Up or give your call at 5.2.J."},{"confidence":0.8886173735062282,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:46:48.925666+00:00","id":359462,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384115,"text":"in the network space for space California. Tuesday November 3, the rocket lab has penciled in the launch of the Sea God survey submission on an electron-cury rocket boosting from New Zealand. We got space news. Space ship on space X continues to ready. Flight 15 for launch booster 22, and the re-installation of its 33 Raptor engines and completed its static fire. Flight 15 for launch, just around Thanksgiving. They plan a double catch this time, both the Super Heavy Booster 22 and Ship 42, Space X, does not yet run by launch date. The mission paid on more detailed orbital profile. Thursday October 29 during US Space Walk 1,"},{"confidence":0.46236708334514076,"created_at":"2026-10-28T03:46:46.229896+00:00","id":359461,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":384114,"text":"On the docket we have just four upcoming launches next week. First, the October 29th, 2020-2202, May Mountain Daylight Time Look for SpaceX's launch of Starlink Group 15-18 from Vandenberg Friday, October 30th. I expect India to launch the NVS-03 on a GSLV Mark II rocket from the SOT-1 Space Center India at 12-21 Mountain Daylight Time. Sunday, November 1st, 18-56, that should be Mountain Standard Time. SpaceX is scheduled to launch the USS F-432 mission on a Falcon 9 leaving Vandenberg."}]}