School!!!!

I really miss home. I think im home sick. Only in BR, Im ready to go back to central to bring this extravagating program to my school. I wonder how it feel to give other students a learning experience. I have a couple of students who are interested in getting into the course. I hope its many freshman that come along so we can pull them into this program, using our psyhic junior persuasion capabilities. I hope we can come up with an excellent experiment so we can keep on impressing Greg. Does that sound like a plan Greg.

I was just sitting here thinking about how I was going to do section 6.0 the payload construction. I'm looking over the template and they are asking me to describe our plan to go from design to launch. I think in order for us to go to the design from launch, we have to go through hardware fabrication, calibrations, and testing. The fabrication parts, are assembling the electronic components to ensure that our electronic are going to operate during flight.
Also today, I did a prototype of our payload box. It came out pretty descent, but we our going to use it to collect data from the HOBO and freezer. I have to do some thermal calculations to get a better understanding of what kinds of temperature changes that the payload is going to encounter during flight.
In HAM today, we operated a net. I was cooler then i expected. We had all these old guys running around with note cards with crazy, silly, funny messages on them, that we had to repeat. I can omit every time someone came up to me with a note card I kind of got nervous. I don't no why, just was.

Yesterday I had some ideas thrown at me about designing our payload. I had a thought process put together on how I wanted it to look on the outside and its internal structure. I had a talk with Mr. John, and he explain to me how things should be set up in the box so they are easy to get to. That conversation changed my whole prospective on how I should set things up. I going to design my new 3D diagrams drawings on solid works instead of Viso this time also. But today I guess I'm going to do a Little prototyping so I can really get an good understanding on how I'm going to design mu box. Guzik said once the design is put on paper it can not be change, so that is something I'm really going to need to think through.

Wow...I gotta take it way back. I haven't blogged since like Friday I believe, so let me start from Saturday. Saturday was field day at the Highland Rd. Observatory. We arrived at like 3:00 in the afternoon, we tried to wait for the sun to go down a little bit. Soon as we got there, we hopped on the radios. I worked to ten meter band with Ms. Ava and we sat there for hours and made no contacts. Even before I came, she said she had been sitting there since 1:00 noon and had only made 2 contacts. I think she kind of really wanted me to talk on the air, so she moved me a station over and I sat there for less the 5 minutes and made a contact in Kansas. The day continued, we ate and went on the nature walk trail. After that, we went in the small dome, and seen Saturn through the telescope again. Ashle E. wanted me to come back out with her and work the 6 meter band, That was very boring because we couldn't make contact with anyone...

Sunday......We just stayed in, and worked on our PDR and slept. Wasn't really to much to do, since we had work to do and no vehicle. We could have went back to field since it had rolled over into Sunday, but we just couldn't bare the heat.

Monday.......I can't even remember what I did Monday, I think I'm getting old...WOW.! ( Probably just worked on the PDR)

Tuesday......The worst day of my life. I got not 100, not 200, not 300, not 400, but $500 docked from my pay check. I heard 500 and heart felt like it dropped. Now we know Greg means business, (not saying we don't take you serious). The decision we had yesterday with Greg seemed very useful, because we came to the conclusion that we were going to have meetings everyday with him at 10:00 a.m. to reassure that everything in our group is going good. Both groups worked really hard together last night, by helping each other on the PDR, staying in the lab until today. We decided that we were going to try to really work harder on this project since everyone doesn't think we are putting much effort into it.

Today......We had our meeting this morning with Jim about our times corresponding with his. He knows we need on this project, so he gave us an option of being here early getting the work done, then being able to leave early when done. PDR review went well. I was actually impressed that Greg said that we had the the best science requirements written in PACER history. Along with that, we made alot of other minor mistake about vagueness and scrambled information. I think that this was the easies document that we have had to do so far. May it was easier because we had the Pre-PDR and the revision from everyone helped us put it together a little better this time around. We also won the award for best document again. Now its time for the Pre-CDR.

I hate this working in groups crap. My team members or so complicate when it comes down to hearing someone eslses ideas. Everytime i make a suggestion, somebody always have to go word for word with me, without even thinking about the suggestion I made. I have asked a question many times about, "How do you work with people that have two different points of view on things?". I am getting highly aggravated working with this group, I am trying to be a patient as possible, I even went to the extream of just let them do what they think is right. It gets crazy after that, because when I don't make any suggestions, they claim "I not helping". I have made many suggestions that could have saved us some red ink from Dr. Guzik's red pen, but no one really listen to their team member, just wants to do the work themselve, them complains.....What do I do? ( and talking to them doesn't help, bacause I tried.)

I got a English lecture, and learned more about the atmosphere. Today was our meeting with Dan, he helped us get to the point. He explained to use that he didnt know that much about the sciecnce background, but by reading a well written PDR, he should be able to do an experiment. He helped us with grammatical, punction, and other mild errors. He also made me create a list 0of things to watch out for in writing other papers., which were: being consistant with same words, capital & lower case letters. Use spaces after initialize words ( g, km, m, ect.). Also use key words and words that stand out so u just dont have a simple paper and people would want to read it. I learned a few other things based on how and hownot to use "HOWEVER with a ;".

Today we need to find out the following information about heat transfer and how it effects the atmosphere. Radition, assorption, emissivity, albedo, solar altitude, length of the day, and the heat budget all are concepts that we should consider when finding out they information that we need to no.I just found out that the sun gives off heat that is reflected on the albedo and IR, (earth) and that heat source can effect how the temperature of our payloads change. Its kind of interesting how the sources underneath the payloads have a big effect on the temperature. I'm thinking if the albedo gets taken away, the sun still gives off an reflection, but it has nothing to give its reflection off too. So I guess im going to sit here and do sum more research to get a better understanding.