Flight Coordinator: Rob Wright
LAUNCH DATE: February 22nd, 2014 (wx delay +1 day)
LAUNCH TIME: 07:10 am MST (14:10 UTC)
LAUNCH SITE: Windsor, CO (Driving Directions to Windsor Launch Site)
Tracking and Recovery Frequencies
Tracking and Recovery Operations
Ground Stations Frequencies
EOSS-193 Balloon Payload Frequencies
EOSS-193
Balloon Manufacturer | Totex |
Balloon Type | latex |
Balloon Size | 1200 g |
Neck Load | 11.3 Lbs. |
Neck Lift | 14.7 Lbs. |
Ascent Rate | 1329 fpm estimated |
Estimated Burst Alt | 90,000 ft. ASL |
Descent Rate | 950 fpm estimated |
Parachute | 5 ft. |
EOSS payload qualifications
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.
Hello Trackers!
We will be launching our annual EOSS qualification flight on Saturday Morning, 2/22 with a weather date of 2/23. It appears this will be a very long flight heading over 100 miles downrange to about 10 miles east of Akron. Nick and Mike have advised me that Jack Roland, KE0VH, has installed an APRS Digi-peater (KE0VH-4) near Akron. EOSS thanks Jack for taking that initiative. We may need to get an early start so we can be closer to the prediction by 7:00. Sorry Jim, KC0RPS will not join us. Hope to see you at the launch site?
As a reminder, at the recovery site, be sure to meet and greet the 4th grade students and learn about their experiment. These are students from Montclair School of Academics who are flying an �Enrichment Biological� environmental survival experiment. We thank Jim, KC0RPS for persisting with their teacher Karl Horeis, KB7UPC. Let�s make it fun for the young scientists.
Shaun, N0SPB plans to Shadow N0JPS and W9CN and fly his �Quadcoptor�. It is a DJI Phantom Vision with a 1080p camera for recording and a lower resolution down link for live view. Once he has a good idea of the landing location, he will launch. As it stands he has about 1 hour of time in the air in 25 minute segments. Should be interesting for the students. We will need to hilltop the RMRL 449.450 repeater to reach the ground station operators. I will take the responsibility to straddle the unknown second repeater and the RMRL repeater as best I can. Stay tuned for some research on the second repeater. Ideas? Here�s the scoop. Please advise Rick, N0KKZ (for the Web site updates) and me of any omissions or corrections.
For breakfast, we can convene at the McDonalds in Ft Morgan at 5:45. Post-flight meal will probably be destined for the Digger�s in Brush where we get the finest service in eastern Colorado.
Tracking and Recovery Grid
TrackPoint Grid Reference Location
Grid X
Grid Y
Last Chance
10 20
Grid Test N 39.800, W103.100
36.1
24.1
Tactical Call Signs
Tactical
Call sign
Name
Notes
Alpha
WA0GEH, KC0D
Marty, Mark
Tracking and Recovery Coordinators (HF)
Bravo
W9CN, N0JPS, KD0JIT
Mike, John, Miles
Tracking, Recovery
Charlie
KE7KCK
Tom
Tracking, Recovery
Delta
K0SCC, N0IX
Stephen, Doug
Tracking, Recovery (HF)
Echo
KD0SEM
Dave
Tracking, Recovery
Foxtrot
WA9WWS, KD0OXS
Don, Dan
Tracking, Recovery (HF)
Golf
KC0L
John
Tracking, Recovery, Friday Net Control
Hotel
KB0LP
Dave
Tracking, Recovery (HF)
India
N0NDM, W0CBH
Larry, Benjie
Launch, Tracking, Recovery
Juliet
W0NFW, N0ZTO George, Greg Tracking, Recovery