The Colorado Space Grant Colleges Summer Launch and the Ball Aerospace BIRST flights were launched as 3 exempt balloons from Genoa Colorado and were recovered south of Hugo, Colorado.
EOSS-326 was launched at 0703 MST and reached a maximum altitude of 91,899 ft
EOSS-327 was launched at 0715 MST and reached a maximum altitude of 91,544 ft
EOSS-328 was launched at 0739 MST and reached a maximum altitude of 88,718 ft
Update 7/26/2022 0600: Updated 327 Heavy payload plans to correct typo. Updated both 326 plans to correct the launch time to 0700.
This will be a launch of two 3000g Balloons for the Ball Internship BIRST program and the Summer Colorado Space Grant Consortium Colleges.
In memory of the passing of EOSS Member John Blakely, The top beacon of the first balloon KC0D-14, will transmit "EOSS BALLOON In Memory of K0JWB John Blakely SK" at the end of each position packet. SK signifies that an Amateur Radio operator is a Silent Key since their transmissions have ended.
If cloud cover precludes the launch of heavy balloons, the payloads will be launched on three exempt 1500g balloons.
EOSS-326 Lite Payload Plan Rev A (corrected launch time to 0700)
This will be 3000g balloon carrying payloads for COSCG.
Frequency | Callsign | Type | Notes |
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144.905 MHz | KC0D-14 | APRS/DF/Release | |
144.34 MHz | AE0SS-13 | Bottom APRS Beacon | Slotted at :10/:40 |
Frequency | Callsign | Type | Notes |
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145.645 MHz | KC0D-1 | APRS/DF/Release | |
144.34 MHz | AE0SS-12 | Bottom APRS Beacon | Slotted 27/57 |
EOSS Preflight Net @ 7 PM Mountain Time preceding night:
• 449.225 MHz (-5 MHz Offset, 141.3 Hz CTCSS) Rocky Mountain Ham Radio (RMHAM) Repeater and EchoLink *CANONCTY* conference and the Fun Machine linked system
• 146.940 MHz (-600 KHz Offset, 103.5 Hz CTCSS) Rocky Mountain Radio League (RMRL) Repeater if the RMHAM machine is down
• 146.640 MHz (-600 KHz Offset, 100.0 Hz CTCSS) Denver Radio League (DRL) Repeater will serve as a backup to the backup repeater
Launch Site:
• 446.050 MHz Simplex
(Note that some radios assume these are repeater frequencies and attempt to put a 5 MHz offset in the transmit frequency automatically)
Track & Recovery Operations:
Repeaters:
• 449.450 MHz (-5 MHz Offset, 103.5 Hz Tone) RMRL repeater
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Simplex Frequencies:
• 446.100 MHz Balloon #1 Field Simplex
• 446.150 MHz Balloon #2 Field Simplex
• 446.200 MHz Balloon #3 Field Simplex
• 446.275 MHz Car to Car drive out Simplex
(Note that some radios assume these are repeater frequencies and attempt to put a 5 MHz offset in the transmit frequency automatically)
Legacy 2M Simplex Frequency (not generally used due to desense/interference issues with the 2M APRS packets)
• 146.550 MHz Simplex
2M Direction Finding Frequencies:
Tactical | Call Sign | Name | Notes |
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Alpha | WA0GEH, KC0D | Marty, Mark | Tracker Coordinators |
Bravo | W9CN, N0JPS, | Mike, John | Track |
Charlie | KE7KCK, K0NKK | Tom, Nancy | Track |
Echo | Jeff | N6BA | Track |
Foxtrot | Chris | KB0YRZ | Track |
Golf | KC0L, K5PUP | John, Eileen from Texas, | Track |
Ground Station | Jeff, Randy, Tom | N2XGL, K5JK, KB0TVJ | |
Yankee | KB0YAL | Brad | Fill and Track |
Zulu | N0RPF | Rob | Fill and Tracker |
Lima | K0LOB | Jim | Tracker |