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====== The UK High Altitude Society Conference 2016 ======

The 2016 UKHAS Conference will be held on Saturday 10th September 2016 at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge:

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The full address is:\\
**Institute of Astronomy\\
University of Cambridge,\\
Madingley Road,\\
Cambridge,\\
CB3 0HA**

The location can be viewed at: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/contact/map
(52.2139 0.09329)


===== Tickets =====

<del>Tickets cost £10 each. Price includes reception coffee/tea, lunch and admission.</del>

Ticket sales now closed.
===== RSGB Foundation Exam =====
In the last few years, a number of people have gained their [[http://rsgb.org/main/clubs-training/for-students/foundation/|RSGB Foundation Licenses]] at the conference. Following these successes, we are once again offering the option to complete the RSGB Foundation Practical Assessments and Exam.

<del>Please contact Phil M0DNY ([[phil@philcrump.co.uk]], or //craag// on IRC) if you are interested. The only additional cost would be the RSGB Exam Fee of £27.50.</del> **All places for the exam have been taken.**

===== Timetable=====

A range of talks and workshop sessions will be on offer. Full timetable to be confirmed.\\
We welcome any contributions and suggestions for both talks and workshops, please let us know.

^ 09:30  | **//Assembly - Drinks & Biscuits//**  |
^ 10:00  | [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQJAjDEq5AA&t=0m1s | Welcome & Introduction]] |
^ 10:10  | [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQJAjDEq5AA&t=2m43s | LoRa - Dave Akerman]]  |
^ 10:40  | [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQJAjDEq5AA&t=35m59s | Evidence that Biology is Continually Arriving to Earth from Space - Prof Milton Wainwright (Univ. of Sheffield)]]  |
^ 11:10  | [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQJAjDEq5AA&t=1h16m28s | Operation Outward - Steve Randall]] |
^ 11:30  | [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQJAjDEq5AA&t=1h47m17s | CAP 393 update and introduction of SERA (Standardised European Rules of the Air) - Steve Randall ]] |
^ 11:40  | **//Break//** |
^ 12:00  | [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQJAjDEq5AA&t=1h52m06s | Chase & Recovery - Dave Akerman ]] |
^ 12:30  | [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQJAjDEq5AA&t=2h16m28s |VORTEX Parachute Tests - John Underwood ]] |
^ 13:00  | **//Lunch//**  |
^ 14:00  | [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQJAjDEq5AA&t=2h48m48s |CUSF's Martlet Rockets - Adam Greig ]] |
^ 14:30  | [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQJAjDEq5AA&t=3h25m28s | Introducing AirCores - Dr Johannes Laube (UEA) ]] |
^ 15:00  | [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQJAjDEq5AA&t=3h56m38s | Measuring RADAR performance using a reflector carried by HAB - Mark B ]]|
^ 15:30  | **//Break//**  |
^ 15:45  | [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQJAjDEq5AA&t=4h39m11s |60 cu m Solar Tetroon Project - Sven Steudte ]] |
^ 16:15  | [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQJAjDEq5AA&t=5h03m16s | A quick guide to small superpressure - Richard Meadows (UBSEDS) ]] |
^ 16:45  | **//End//** |
^ 17:00  | Balloon launch(es) from Churchill College |
^ 18:00  | Pub |
===== Live Streams =====

This year there are two simultaneous streams:

YouTube:
[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsaAI_L8A1g]]

IoA:
[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjMVJF8N39Y]]
===== Overnight accommodation ======

There are a  number of hotels and B&Bs in the Cambridge area, and many of the colleges offer rooms over the summer period.

Churchill College, next to the Institute of Astronomy, has rooms available at https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/conferences/services/bandb/



===== Travel Directions & Parking Information ======

Can be found here: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/contact/directions

== Further info: ==

On the northbound M11, leave at Junction 13 and turn right at the end of the road onto Madingley Road. You will pass the Park-n-Ride on the left. Carry on down Madingley Road and you will see the Cambridge Computer Lab on your right. Immediately turn left. The signage comes up on you pretty fast, so please be careful. Once you have turned off, the car park (about 30 spaces) is on your right. Further car parking is available up the hill (about a further 50 spaces).

If you are travelling southbound on the M11, you will need to go down one junction (to Junction 12), leave the motorway and come back onto it going in the other direction (you can't exit the M11 at junction 13 southbound). If this is your first trip to the location we strongly encourage you not to take the back roads as they can be a bit of a maze.

**Please Note if traveling by car:**
The Duxford Air show is on the same weekend so the M11 will be really busy around Junction 10


The train station is 2.6 miles away to walk. Or you could take the Park and Ride bus from the city centre to Madingley Road and walk down the road to the Institute. The city bus station is 1.3 miles from the venue.

There is a bus service from the rail station to a stop just over the road from the Institute of Astronomy.  It runs every 20 minutes and costs £2.  You would want the JJ Thompson Avenue stop.  It is run by Whippet Coaches and called the Universal. http://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/universal_timetable.pdf

Some attendees have offered to run a public transport pickup service the night before - so enquire with Steve & Daniel if you would like to use this.
===== Attendees =====
This list will be automatically updated on receipt of payment, please don't add yourself!

Daniel Saul \\
Steve Randall \\
Adam Greig \\
Phil Crump \\
Ian Leitch \\
Andy Mell \\
Geoffrey Mather \\
Dave Akerman \\
Russ Garrett \\
Jerry Sandys \\
Anthony Stirk \\
David Brooke \\
Matthew Burnham \\
James Coxon \\
Andrew Garratt \\
Richard Meadows \\
Dave Baxter \\
Alain Verbrugge \\
Emma Leedham \\
Matt Taylor \\
Ewan Parsons x2 \\
Andrew Esser \\
Gregory Tomlin \\
Geoffrey Powell \\
Jon Bigwood \\
Gabriele De Canio \\
Julien Fron \\
Andy Batey \\
Mark Ireland \\
Cassie Phelps \\
Emma Leedham \\
Thomas McCarthy \\
Charles Riley \\
Tomasz Brol \\
Robert Harrison \\
Sven Steudte \\
Phil Heron \\
Simon Cansick \\
Maurice Heneghan x2 \\
George Emsden \\
John Underwood \\
Matthew Beckett \\
Benjamin Chalmers \\
David Cattermole \\
Ricardo Da Silva \\
Keith Ballinger \\
Toivo Hartikainen \\
David Crye \\
William Duckworth \\
Milton Wainwright \\
Johannes Laube \\
Richard Hewett \\
Gavin Nesbitt \\
Richard Cariss \\
Samantha Graham \\
Patrick van Staveren \\
Julian Smith \\
Yakub Mohamoud \\
Matt Brejza \\
Laurence Blaxter \\
Robert Sandford \\
Robert Basford x2 \\
Steven Pope \\
Malcolm Smith \\
Andrew Hind \\

Total : 68
===== Contact =====
This years organisers are Steve Randall ([[steve@randomaerospace.com]]) and Daniel Saul ([[daniel@dansaul.co.uk]]).