Announcement of EOSS-133/134

Flight Coordinator: Larry Cerney, K0ANI (k0ani@eoss.org)

LAUNCH DATE: November 15th, 2008 (wx +1)
LAUNCH TIME:

• EOSS-133 - 06:50 MST (13:50 UTC)
• EOSS-134 - 07:20 MST (14:20 UTC)

LAUNCH SITE: Deer Trail, CO (see directions)

Payload Experiment Designer

• Colorado Space Grant Consortium

EOSS Flight Day Frequencies:

Tracking and Recovery Frequencies

• Preflight Net:
  • 147.225 MHz 8 pm MST preceding Saturday night
    • 145.160 MHz simulcast in the Springs
  • 146.640 MHz will serve as a backup frequency
• Tracking and Recovery Operations
  • 448.450 MHz PPFMA (100 Hz Tone)
  • 146.550 MHz simplex (same simplex for field and launch ops)
  • Repeater Coverage Pages - Listings of all repeaters available in the expected flight areas.
  • There may be FRS operations see THIS PAGE for a list of channel numbers and their associated UHF Frequencies.
  • 7.228 MHz HF

EOSS-133 Balloon Payload Frequencies

• Beacons
  • 147.555 MHz
    • CW ID: AE0SS
• APRS
  • 144.340 MHz
  • • 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
    • Telemetry once a minute
    • Sample Data

EOSS-134 Balloon Payload Frequencies

• Beacons
  • 145.600 MHz
    • CW ID: AE0SS
• 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

• 145.600 MHz

• ID: K0ANI-11

Flight Systems: 

EOSS-133

EOSS-134

Payload Configuration:

• Payload_Plan_133-34C.pdf 

Tracking and Recovery Info:  

Breakfast

Trackers on their own.  We�ll meet at the launch site at 05:30 to assist the launch team.

Grid

Tactical Call Signs