It's been a while since my last post, I've been keeping up with school and my internship at Honeywell Intellectual Property International. One of my current classes, "Nearspace," has persuaded me to obtain my amateur radio license. In the class we will be launching a high altitude balloon that will communicate with ground crews over a radio link using a frequency somewhere in the 2m band. Before using this band the FCC requires that the control operator (fancy word for button pusher) be a licensed, Technician Class, HAM. The test was fairly easy, only 35 questions pulled from a publicly reviewed pool. So far seven members of the class have their licences and callsigns. If you're ever on the radio and hear KD0EHH, say hello!