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Flight Coordinator: Rob Wright
LAUNCH DATE: July 7th, 2012 (wx delay +1 day)
LAUNCH TIME: 07:10 am MDT (13:10 UTC)
LAUNCH SITE: Briggsdale, CO (driving directions)
NOTE: Fire Operations on all repeaters take precedence, defer to their activities
Tracking and Recovery Frequencies
Tracking and Recovery Operations
EOSS-179 Balloon Payload Frequencies
EOSS-179
Balloon Manufacturer | Totex |
Balloon Type | latex |
Balloon Size | 3000 g |
Neck Load | 18.6 Lbs. |
Neck Lift | 22.4 Lbs. |
Ascent Rate | 1329 fpm estimated |
Descent Rate | 950 fpm estimated |
Parachute | 10 ft. |
Pre-Collegiate Development Program - A new program offered by University of Colorado at Boulder to generate interest and enthusiasm in Middle and High School students in their pursuit of a college education and degree. This should be an exciting and fun outing for them and EOSS personnel as well.
Experimenters are welcome to submit websites for linking or overviews which I will post on a page on the EOSS website.
Future I-Gaters:
EOSS is always in need of I-Gate stations. Check out the EOSS I-Gate page for information on how to participate and why we need you.
Current I-Gate Station:
If you are present at your iGate during the flight try and monitor the tracking and recovery frequency. The ground station likes to check the frequency prior to launch to find out if any stations are out there ready to igate the traffic onto the net for the FAA to monitor.
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.
Your Log Files
Our technical committee members would also request you open a log file and record all the packets you hear and forward onto APRS-IS. Whenever there is a technical failure of a package it is always helpful to have the most complete dataset possible to attempt to determine the cause of failure and possible fixes. After a flight send your data files to me (webmaster) and I will distribute them to the appropriate payload builders. They appreciate these logs even if all goes fine during a flight.
We will NOT be going to Ft. Morgan for breakfast as the predictions have moved west. So the breakfast will meet at Johnson�s Corner:
Tentatively we will travel north on I-25 to Exit 293, CR 126,
CR 126 east to Highway 85,
Highway 85 south to CR 122,
East on CR 122 and disperse along the road length, 5-10 miles
Location | Grid X | Grid Y |
West Intersection Highway 14 & 71 | 60 | 10 |
Grid Test 41.25� N, 104.25� W | 30.3 | 54 |
Tactical | Callsign | Name | Notes |
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Alpha | WA0GEH, KC0D | Marty and Mark | Tracking and Recovery |
Bravo | KC0UUO, N0IX | Rob, Doug | Flight Coordinator |
Charlie | W9CN | Mike and Miles | Trackers |
Delta | K0SCC | Stephen and Parker | Trackers |
Echo | N0NDM | Larry | Launch and Grab |
Foxtrot | AC0RY and KD0PRJ | Brian and Benjamin with Bernadette and Lindsay in other vehicles | Colorado Space Grant |
Golf | K5JFD | John | Texas Tracker |