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Recap of EOSS-109/110
LAUNCH DATE: 29-July-2006
LAUNCH TIME: 7:30 am (13:30 UTC) second balloon 45 minutes later
LAUNCH SITE: Genoa, CO (Driving
Directions)
GROUND STATION SITE: Deer Trail, CO (Driving
Directions)
Individual Balloon Recaps
Flight Tracks and Predictions only, all other data linked on this page
Recap of EOSS-109
Recap of EOSS-110
Tracking and Recovery Team
Flight Day Breakfast
Final breakfast location determined the evening before flight.
- Talkin: 146.880 MHz
- 5:00 am
(earlier to compensate for the longer drive to the launch site)
- Location:
Flying "J" Travel Plaza (Truck Stop)
- 16751 E 32nd Ave, Aurora, CO
- South of I-70 1 block on the west side of Airport Blvd.
EOSS Frequencies:
Global Frequencies
- Preflight Net:
- 147.225 MHz 107.2 Hz tone
- Tracking and Recovery
Operations
- 448.450 MHz PPFMA Repeater (100 Hz Tone)
- If flightpath goes east or south
- 449.450 MHz RMRL Repeater (103.5 Hz
Tone)
- If flight path goes northeast
- 447.875 MHz (103.5 Hz Tone)
- This repeater is in the Deer Trail vicinity (15 mi. SW of Deer Trail)
- 147.060 MHz
- 146.550 MHz simplex (for both field ops and the launch site)
- Repeater Coverage Pages -
Listings of all repeaters available in the expected flight areas.
- 7.228 MHz + QRM HF (sporadic usage)
Balloon Frequencies
EOSS-109
- Beacon
and APRS
- 145.600 MHz
- ID: K0ANI-11
- Tracking Tone then CW ID then APRS
APRS
- 144.340 MHz (Payload Train)
- ID: AEØSS-11
- DIGI: EOSS
- Node: BALNOD
- APRS Time Slotted Every 30 seconds at 0:00 and 0:30
- power up at 58 seconds past the GPS minute to properly slot telemetry
- Telemetry once a minute
- Sample Data
EOSS-110
- Beacon
- APRS
- 144.340 MHz
- ID: KC0YA-11
- DIGI: EOSS
- Node: BALND2
- APRS Time Slotted Every 30 seconds at 0:15 and 0:45
- power up at 13 seconds past the GPS minute to properly slot telemetry
- Telemetry once a minute
- Sample Data
Payload Configuration:
Internet Gateway Stations:
as seen on Findu.Com
EOSS-109
For AE0SS-11
- K0YG-5 - Mark Patton - Foxfield, CO
- KC0LNO-1 - Michael M Skinner, Monument, CO
- K0AEM-1 - Richard Beggs, Thornton, CO
- N0PSJ - Christopher Holmes, Arvada, CO
- WY0F - Jack Barnard, Grand Island, NE
- N0YXV-1 - Stanley Coleman, Grand Island, NE
For K0ANI-11
- K0ANI - Larry Cerney, Denver, CO
- N0PSJ - Christopher Holmes, Arvada, CO
- KC0RIA-7 - Mark Young, Montrose, CO
- K0YG-5 - Mark Patton - Foxfield, CO
- K0YG-7 - Mark Patton - Foxfield, CO
- W0EP-1 - Christopher Howard, Estes Park, CO
- KI4GYZ - Art Hostmark, Thornton, CO
EOSS-110
For KC0YA-11
- K0YG-5 - Mark Patton - Foxfield, CO
- K0YG-7 - Mark Patton - Foxfield, CO
- KC0LNO-1 - Michael M Skinner, Monument, CO
- N0PSJ - Christopher Holmes, Arvada, CO
- WY0F - Jack Barnard, Grand Island, NE
- K0AEM-1 - Richard Beggs, Thornton, CO
- N0YXV-1 - Stanley Coleman, Grand Island, NE
WOW, what a turn out for the i-Gates today! Thanks to the new i-gaters from
Grand Island, Stanley Coleman, N0YXV and Jack Barnard WY0F. And thanks to new
i-gaters in Colorado (for us anyway) Mark Young KC0RIA who is usually aboard his
helichopper, Air-1 but was i-gating today and Christopher Howard W0EP from Estes
Park. We appreciate this unexpected assistance.
EOSS also wishes to express our sincere appreciation to our regular stations
listed above who iGated the APRS telemetry onto the internet.
We are relying heavily on real time position information available on the net
to allow the FAA controllers to have up to the minute location data to assist
them in air traffic control.
Redundant stations for the balloon iGating provide excellent coverage. If you are able to iGate we invite you to join the Internet Gateway Team.
Contact me (webmaster@eoss.org)
to be put in touch with the coordinator. By joining
the team, you are giving peace of mind to the iGate coordinator for that flight.
He knows you'll be there and he can rely on you.
Naturally, anyone can iGate data onto the net and even if you aren't a member
of the team we will welcome your contribution to the internet based tracking
effort. If you callsign appears on the findu.com log, you'll be shown as a
contributing station as those above are.
Having
more than one station covering each APRS beacon means that should a station
drop out momentarily, the others can often maintain the data flow.
Thanks again guys! The FAA (and EOSS) are very grateful for your assistance
in this endeavor.
Future I-Gaters:
Check out the EOSS I-Gate page for information on
how to participate and why we need you.
Current I-Gate Stations:
Guys, the prediction program used to determine the track of the balloon prior
to flight can now output a prediction for the Rise, Closest Approach, and Set of
the balloon for each of your stations. I have posted a prediction page for
stations that I have been able to discover geographic coordinates. See the
I-Gate prediction page for an example. The page
will not be updated daily, however, it will be updated the evening prior to
flight for I-gate planning purposes.
I have often been asked by iGaters when they should expect to either start
receiving signals (AOS) or expect to see those signals disappear (LOS). This
prediction page should answer all those questions for you.
Tracking and Recovery Info:
(as of Friday evening, 7/28/06)
Grid
| Location |
X |
Y |
| Deer Trail |
33 |
58 |
| Punkin Center |
51.5 |
5.5 |
| Calhan |
20 |
18.9 |
| Kiowa |
11 |
40 |
| Touchdown (see Prediction Page) |
Tactical Callsigns
| Tactical |
Callsign |
Name |
Notes |
| Alpha |
N0NDM, N0MPM |
Larry and Mike |
Tracking and Recovery Coordinator |
| Bravo |
W0CBH, WG0E |
Benjie and Colin |
|
| Charlie |
KB0YRZ, KC0UUO |
Chris and Rob |
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| Delta |
KI4GYZ |
Art |
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| Echo |
WA0GEH, N0AUS |
Marty and Al |
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| Foxtrot |
K0SCC |
Steve and Whitney |
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| Ground |
AE0SS |
Nick |
Ground Station |
Notes:
Our Customer
CU 2 3000g heavies, DemoSats
note: customers are welcome to submit detailed synopses of
their flights or web links to their own web sites.
Recaps by Participants:
Anyone who participates in a flight is welcome to submit their
own recap of the events of the day. It can be as simple as a short paragraph
others will find interesting to several web pages of pictures, graphs, video,
audio whatever.
Photos:
Launch Site
EOSS-109 Launch site photos by Larry Cerney, K0ANI
EOSS-110 Launch site photos by Larry Cerney, K0ANI
EOSS-109 Launch site photos by Colin
Glennan, WG0E
EOSS-110 Launch site photos by Colin
Glennan, WG0E
Recovery Site
EOSS-109 Recovery Site photos by Rob Wright, KC0UUO
- Page 1 - The trip there
- Page 2 - Payloads as they are found on
the ground
EOSS-110 Recovery Site photos by Larry Cerney, K0ANI
EOSS-110 Recovery Site photos by Marty Griffin, WA0GEH
EOSS-110 Recovery Site photos by Colin
Glennan, WG0E
EOSS-110 Recovery Site photos by Larry
Noble, N0NDM
Audio:
I have the flight audio but I'm not too sure I'll have a chance to edit it
before departing to GPSL. That may have to wait until later in the month.
Video:
By Rob Wright, KC0UUO
These videos are in Quicktime MOV format
Data:
EOSS-109
Text
Comma Delimited
EOSS-110
Text
Comma Delimited
Charts:
Nick Hanks, N0LP
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