Green = Actual Flight Track
Purple = predicted ascent
Red = predicted descent
Recap Info |
Launch Site - Meadow Lake Air ----------------------- Launch Point: 38.951� lat. -104.5757� long. Ascent Rate: 1100 feet per minute Descent Rate: 1350 feet per minute Altitude: 6874 feet VOR Station - Black Forest (BRK) ----------------------- Latitude: 38.9417� lat. Longitude: -104.6333� long. Magnetic Offset: -10.3� from True Degrees Predicted Landing Site ----------------------- Landing Point: 38.7544� lat. -104.3124� long. Altitude: 6500 feet Flight Time: 107 Minutes Bearing: 133.7� True Range: 19.6 Mi. Actual Landing Site ----------------------- Landing Point: 38.7299� lat. -104.3492� long. Bearing: 141.3� True Range: 19.5 Mi. Difference from Predicted to Actual Landing Site -------------------------------------------------- Bearing: 229.5� True Range: 2.6 Mi. all values are predicted except for the last two entries |
LAUNCH DATE: October 19, 2002
LAUNCH TIME: 09:06 am MDT, 15:06 UTC
LAUNCH SITE: Meadow Lake Airport (Directions)
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Longest distance QSO
Here is Paul Ternlund's spread sheet analysis of bearings obtained from the tracking and recovery team on this flight.
The complete ground station log shows all packet activity received at the EOSS ground station at Meadow Lake Airport. This includes digipeated packets from stations other than the balloon payload.
The full KPC3 log shows walking about pre-launch and the payload meandering about post touchdown as well as the brief snippet of a helicopter flight back to the tracking and recovery teams.
Text files:
Spread Sheet files (comma delimited)
Location | X coord | Y coord |
Launch point | 33 | 63.5 |
Punkin Center | 80 | 55 |
Colorado Springs | 20 | 55 |
Burnt Mill | 0 | 21 |
Karval | 89 | 47 |
Landing point | 55 | 44 |
EOSS-60 will be in support of the Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) Boy Scouts of America event. Details will be added as they arrive.
Information is available on the Scout's JOTA Web Page
Here's the Flyer being posted to advertise this event.
Coverage at 95,000 feet ASL
Light Green - (good packet reception) APRS
Red - The 0.40 uV threshold - voice may be possible outside of this zone but will be noisy
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