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
      • (Genoa backup repeater)
    • 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: AE�SS-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

EOSS-110

  • Beacon
  • 147.555 MHz
  • 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

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  
Delta KI4GYZ Art  
Echo WA0GEH, N0AUS Marty and Al  
Foxtrot K0SCC Steve and Whitney  
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

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EOSS-110

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Charts:

Nick Hanks, N0LP