February 14, 7PM Texas DX Society Meeting Night at the Tracy Gee Center.
Program by Tom Campbell KD5TIO, “Forty Meters, Fair Winds, Fireballs, and Failure Investigations: A Summer Well Spent“. Tom Campbell KD5TIO sailed his 31ft sailboat “Solitaire”, from Clear Lake TX, to Cape Canaveral Florida and back this past summer to take part in the ill fated NASA Morpheus Lander flight test campaign. In this presentation Tom covers maritime mobile equipment and operations, Winlink performance at sea, and the navigation failure that led to the loss of the Morpheus Lander. Additional topics include water as a gearbox lubricant, illegal fishing and how to eat the evidence, and bars not to go to in Cocoa Beach. Pre-meeting dinner get together usually starts about 5:30PM at Pappa’s BBQ on S. Gessner.
