[TWIAR] EOSS 57 Launches 3 Balloons

[Greg Williams]

via eHam.net - from KE0VH on July 4, 2002


EOSS 57, the Edge of Space Sciences Amateur radio group of Colorado
successfully launched and recovered 3 balloon flights on June 22 using
Amateur Radio APRS and DF techniques to track and recover the payloads.

The balloons carried high altitude experiments, camera's and ATV to heights
of over 80,000 feet, with the landings occurring near the Fort Morgan
Colorado area.

The launch took place in Deer Trail, on I-70 east of Denver, with the
balloons taking a general North easterly track.

The Montana Space Grant Consortium, and Iowa State University Habet crews
launched with EOSS and tracked the balloons to touchdown. Many times the
balloons launced will carry cross band repeaters, with contacts possible
over several hundred miles within the footprint. Some flights have gone over
100,000 feet, with footprints of 700 or more miles. Check out more
information at www.eoss.org, the Montana website at
www.physics.montana.edu/borealis, or the Iowas State HABET site at
cosmos.ssol.iastate.edu/HABET/

Greg Williams
k4hsm@lock-net.com

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