If you go again take a bGiegieNano from Safecast with you. It records the data on a SD card and has GPS and 2inch pancake detector.. You can build it yourself for$450 preorders at http://medcom.com/bgeigie-nano/. I was/am part of the development team.
regards Rob Oudendijk http://about.me/robouden http://yr-design.biz http://oudendijk.biz