Announcement of EOSS-132

Flight Coordinator: Mike Manes (email to Webmaster and I'll forward it along)

LAUNCH DATE: October 4th, 2008 (wx +1)
LAUNCH TIME: 08:00 MDT (14:00 UTC)
LAUNCH SITE: Crow Valley Recreation Area, Briggsdale, CO (see directions)

EOSS Flight Day Frequencies:

Tracking and Recovery Frequencies

• Preflight Net:
  • 147.225 MHz 8 pm MDT preceding Saturday night
    • 145.160 MHz simulcast in the Springs
  • 146.640 MHz will serve as a backup frequency
• Tracking and Recovery Operations
  • 449.450 MHz RMRL (103.5 Hz Tone)
  • 145.295 MHz (100 Hz Tone) - Sterling Repeater
  • 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-132 Balloon Payload Frequencies

• Beacons
  • 145.600 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

• 147.555 MHz

• ID: W0WYX (no SSID)

• Crossband Repeater

• 445.975 MHz input
• 147.555 MHz output

• ID: W0WYX

• ATV

• 426.250 MHz AM

• GPS Location overlay
• ID: AE0SS

Flight Systems: 

EOSS-132

Payload Configuration:

• Payload_Plan_132B.pdf

Tracking and Recovery Info:

Breakfast

• Ft. Morgan McDonalds (Google Map)
• 06:00am to 06:40am
• note: Ft. Morgan is still almost 60 miles from the predicted landing site, thus the early times

Grid

Tactical Callsigns