Email Detail
Show an email
GET /hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/DK43M6E7WXQ4LT6KVBCYHL53WCHSM5TA/
{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/DK43M6E7WXQ4LT6KVBCYHL53WCHSM5TA/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "DK43M6E7WXQ4LT6KVBCYHL53WCHSM5TA", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/MH45X5HHNVLXO5H7OCHAKAP7F5CZOU7K/", "sender": { "address": "archie.hackett (a) hotmail.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "John Hackett", "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: Baa ba little lamb.", "date": "2007-09-07T09:33:40Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/RQ4IZ3HKGHNXWGOFT4RTKLYBWHUPLNV4/", "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "\nJan, \n That's precisely the conclusion I came to ... though I'm being e-mailed some wierd and wonderful 'theories' ... everything from the amount of illumination to the colour of my underpants on the days in question.\n\nOne of the problems is of course finding precise eclipse software (that is agreement with other softeware). The \"trick\" is to use three different ones and bat for an average.\n\n(very! scientific ... he he he).\n\nI've made an application for the documentation you mentioned but whether I'll manage to get my grubby little hands on it is another matter. I'll keep you posted.\n\nIn the words of the Wallies, Good on yer' mate, no worries!.\n\n73 John. <[email protected]>\n\nFrom: [email protected]\nTo: [email protected]; [email protected]\nCC: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]\nSubject: RE: Baa ba little lamb.\nDate: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 10:11:55 +0100\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn,\n\nAre you sure it’s not because there\nis now some eclipse time that is taking the bird down? It only takes a few seconds without a\nbattery and the timer will be reset or come up random (I think it resets, as I\nrecall). The way the orbit of the\nEarth around the sun works, the minimum eclipse duration for sun sync orbits\nshould be on about February 10 and the maximum eclipse should be on about June\n1. The orbit has drifted so far in\nthe sunward direction (toward a 6 AM – 6 PM ascending node) that there\nmay be no eclipse at all now (which is good) but, you would expect to have this\nproblem you are describing more like in June than in September if it is due to\neclipse. Curious! I suppose the timer could have failed\nbut, it’s funny to think that it would fail after 31 years and other\nstuff would not have. There is\nnothing special about those two CMOS gates that would make that circuit any\nmore prone to failure than any other that is still working. I’d rather suspect something with\nthe power system driven by orbit changes. \nOne power glitch would reset the timer.\n\nJan\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom: John\nHackett [mailto:[email protected]] \n\nSent: Thursday, 6 September 2007\n9:00 AM\n\nTo: [email protected]\n\nCc: [email protected];\[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];\[email protected]\n\nSubject: Baa ba little lamb.\n\n\n\n \n\nSo much for the (convenient) 24\nhours timer theory proffered in response to my previous mails regarding the\ntiming of AO-7.\n\n \n\nThis is the 3rd consequtive day the 24 hour timer is *NOT* playing ball.\n\n \n\n05/06 Septembert 2007.\n\n\n\nTIME. ORBIT. MODE.\n\n\n\n23:46 50133 B\n\n23:51 50133 A\n\n01:35 50135 A\n\n01:36 50134 B\n\n01:44 40135 A\n\n\n\nI have received confirmation mails from AJ9K and K3SZH that \n\ntheir log entries *ARE* correct.\n\n\n\nAs you Gentlemen on that side of the pond are wont to say ... \n\n\"go figure!\".\n\n\n\nIncidentally, the mode changes spell \"baa ba\" ... it couldn't be that\nAO-t thinks we're a veritable bunch (flock) of sheep?.\n\n\n\nJust a thought. \n\n\n\n73 John. <[email protected]>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n", "attachments": [] }