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          <h1 class="huge center">Welcome!</h1>
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            Welcome to the NOEXC Balloon Project information landing site.
            In addition to beaconing RTTY telemetry tracking-data, our payload
            The NBP-3 launch has been postponed until further notice.
            We welcome and encourage the community to track our efforts. We
            will publish more information as it is available. Please register
            on our <a href="https://noexc.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wiki</a> and our
            <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/noexc">
              mailing list
            </a> to track the latest developments within the project.
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            - The NBP-3 Team
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            <h1 class="huge pad10bot">What is this project?</h1>
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              This flight (NBP-3) is a high-altitude balloon flight which will
              be launched by the
              <a href="https://noexc.org/">
                Northeast Ohio Experimenters Club
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              The goal of this flight is to enable amateur radio operators in
              the region of Ohio and possibly surrounding states to communicate
              with each other through the balloon.
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            <h1 class="huge pad10bot">Who is behind it?</h1>
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              We are the
              <a href="https://noexc.org/">
                Northeast Ohio Experimenters Club
              </a>, a new amateur radio and electronics club started in the Fall
              of 2014. NOEXC is comprised of members residing all throughout the
              northeast Ohio area with member coverage extending as far north as
              Cleveland, as far east as Youngstown, and as far west as
              Akron/Canton. Please visit our wiki for more information.
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          <h1 class="huge pad10bot">Stay in the know.</h1>
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            We will (may?) be live-streaming the launch of NBP-3. Once it is up
            in the air, you can track it in a number of ways. First, you can,
            of course, turn on a radio and decode the RTTY telemetry data using
            a computer or smartphone. If that's not an option, however, you can
            use our production "mapview" system which allows you to track the
            balloon in your browser from anywhere with an internet connection,
            in realtime. More information will appear here before the launch.
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