[NCARC] Fwd: EOSS New & Current Member Training

[David Eckhardt]

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From: <MDerr44995 at aol.com>
Date: Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 8:51 AM
Subject: EOSS New & Current Member Training
To: BARC70 at arrl.net


In a message dated 9/27/2015 12:25:24 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
mgriffin at centosystems.com writes:

*Hello EOSS Team, New Members and Prospective Members,*

Save the Date!  *EOSS [Edge of Space Sciences] Welcome Session and Training*;
October 17, 2015, 8:00-12:00, Country Buffet, 301 Englewood Parkway,
Englewood, CO 80110.  See EOSS web site at: http://www.eoss.org/

Please give WIDE distribution to your groups!  Thanks!

Edge of Space Sciences (EOSS), a Colorado 501(c)(3) non-profit, would like
to enlist and welcome new members from our Amateur Radio community.  Our
mission and charter to "promote science and education by exploring
frontiers in amateur radio and high altitude balloons" has recently been
expanded.  While we continue to support multiple universities and colleges
in their scientific research, we are now supporting innovative and
aggressive high school STEM programs.  To continue this support, we welcome
new members to help fill the needs for these programs and enjoy the
personal satisfaction that comes with such support.

EOSS will be conducting a welcome and training session for new and current
members on October 17, from 8:00-12:00 at the Country Buffet, 301 Englewood
Parkway, Englewood CO 80110.  This training session has two major
objectives:

                1.            To train new and current members in some of
the processes, procedures and technology used by EOSS members to
successfully launch, track and recover balloon payloads.

                2.            To welcome and encourage new members who will
help wish to help with upcoming missions.  Mentors will be assigned to new
members.  Membership fees for 2015-2016 will be waived for new members
signing up during this session.

The fun-filled agenda will include:

Welcome, Kick-Off and Meeting Overview (Rob, KC0UUO, Marty, WA0GEH)

•             Breakfast:  8:00-8:30

•             Meeting Start: 8:30

•             Breakout Sessions Start: 11:15

•             Meeting End, QRT:  12:00

Meet EOSS Flight Coordinators, Welcome New Members: Assign EOSS Mentors
(Jim, KC0RPS, Tom, KE7KCK, Russ, KB0TVJ)

•             Introduce EOSS Members, New Members

•             New Member Orientation, Web Pages, Email Services (YAHOO)

•             Encourage STEM Initiatives

•             Review, thank our important sponsors, encourage educational
sponsors

•             About Flight Coordinators, Join Up!

•             Encourage New Members, Complete New Member Applications, Free
for Attending

Using GPS and APRS (Tom, KE7KCK, Nick, N0LP)

•             GPS Overview, Data Formats

•             GPS Format used by EOSS Payloads (Examples)

•             Demo:  Adding a Waypoint to Your GPS (Bring Your GPS)

•             Demo:  APRS Overview (Examples, Resources)

•             Compass Operation

•             Introduction to TrackPoint

•             Copying ARPS using TrackPoint (Bring your own notebook PC),
using APRS-enabled radios

•             Loading APRS Location Data to Your GPS

Payload Overviews (Doug, N0IX, Parker, KE0BMV, Stephen, K0SCC, Mark, KC0D)

•             EOSS Payloads, Upper, Bottom, Payload Demonstrations

•             Student Payloads

•             Designing, building and testing EOSS Payloads (Mark)

•             Handling Instructions, Power Down Process, Payload and
Parachute Care During Recovery

•             Special Instructions for Each Flight to Ensure Experiment
Success

•             Live Payload Demo (Bring Your Own Radios)

Direction Finding Techniques:  (Jim, KC0RPS, Marty, WA0GEH)

•             Required Equipment, Maps, Radios, Antennas, Attenuators

•             Map Grid Processes

•             Alpha Coordination

•             Demonstration

Preflight Flight Line Preparations, Conducting Student Orientations and
Briefings, (Stephen, K0SCC)

•             Flight Line Preparations, Hand-off to Launch Team

•             Launch Site Student Briefing Topics, examples

•             Recovery Site Student Briefing Topics, examples

•             Encourage New Flight Prep Members

Launching the Balloon, Site Experiences, Videos (Larry, N0NDM, Nick, N0LP,
Parker, KE0BMV)

•             Launch Procedures

•             Selected Launch Discussions and Student Videos

•             Encourage New Launch Team Members

Ground Station Operations (Nick, N0LP, Russ, KB0TVJ, Randy Collander)

•             Ground Station Equipment, Capabilities

•             Tasks Before and During Flights

•             Critical Support Functions, Liaisons with FAA

Tracking and Recovery Procedures (Marty, WA0GEH, Mike, W9CN, Dave, KD0SEM,
Jim, KC0RPS, Chris, KB0YRZ)

•             About Alpha and Bravo

•             Tracker Team, two team members (driver, tracker)

•             Tracker Conduct and Public Protocols

•             Vehicle Setup, Minimum Equipment (Post meeting breakout demos)

•             Tracker Go Kit Contents

•             Direction Finding Requirements

•             Preparing for a Tracker Mission

•             Conducting the Recovery, Alpha Functions, Student
Participation, Payload Power-down, Parachute Packing

•             Landowner Protocols, Permissions, Restrictions

•             Knowing Emergency Contacts, First Aid

•             Encourage New Tracker Members

Start Breakout Sessions, Complete Membership Applications (Rob, KC0UUO,
Marty, WA0GEH)

•             Breakout Session:  TrackPoint for Beginners, Setup, Install
(Nick, N0LP)

•             Breakout Session:  Vehicle Demos (Members bring tracker
vehicles prepared for tracking) Mike (W9CN, Glenn, WB0DKT, Tom, KE7KCK)
with others, Demonstrate TrackPoint running in vehicles, activate payloads

•             Breakout Session:  Open Q&A, Meet New Members (Jim, KC0RPS,
Rob, KC0UUO)

Please drop me an email and let me know that you can attend or ask
questions about this event.  You must pay for your breakfast, but each new
member will have their 2015-2016 membership dues waived for attending this
session - a $40 value.  Also there will be a few nice door-prizes for those
in attendance.

EOSS members look forward to welcoming you and we feel this will be a
rewarding, fulfilling session.

Best Regards,

Marty Griffin, WA0GEH, EOSS Tracking and Recovery Coordinator,
WA0GEH at EOSS.ORG

on behalf of Rob Wright, KC0UUO, EOSS President. and the EOSS Members.






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*Dave - W0LEV*
*Just Let Darwin Work*