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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/MPGBZFVO2L7IMRXRLI4QHIFFSHTC2VT4/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "MPGBZFVO2L7IMRXRLI4QHIFFSHTC2VT4", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/MPGBZFVO2L7IMRXRLI4QHIFFSHTC2VT4/", "sender": { "address": "archie.hackett (a) hotmail.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "John Hackett", "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: [eu-amsat] Re: Re: AO-7 report.- Band switching", "date": "2007-08-06T20:57:13Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "Hello Mak,\n I appreciate your support and am very glad somebody else \nnoticed the discrepancy ...\nand while I have the pen ... (keyboard) ... congratuations on your fine \nsignal on the old girl yesterday, the first time we've worked on AO-7.\n\nSince we're both completely blocked by mountains in our respective take-off \ndirections we did OK Makis.\n\nI told !!! you the EU-Amsat reflector would be a success didn't I ... we did \ngood Mak.\n\n73 John. <[email protected]> AO-7 Resource Page Admin:\n\n..........................................................................................................\n\n>From: SV1BSX <[email protected]>\n>Reply-To: [email protected]\n>To: [email protected]\n>Subject: Re: [eu-amsat] Re: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 report.- Band switching\n>Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:03:43 -0700 (PDT)\n>\n> Hi John & group,\n>\n>personally I agree 100% with you John. AO-7 this\n>summer working like a \"single\" Mode-B Satellite !\n>This is very unusual comparing with previous years,\n>where during the summer-months it was mainly \"ON\" in\n>Mode-A. And I know that very well, as a \"fan\" of\n>Mode-A.\nBut definitely, this summer-period something is\n>different on satellite's behavior .\n>\n>I wondering before several weeks, why the Satellite\n>was not \"ON\" on Mode-A, but nothing more.\n>John LA2QAA has an \"eagle eye\", so not just he noticed\n>that but he wrote it, wondering also about the\n>possible ralationship with \"Timer's\" operation , when\n>the AO-7 will going out of eclipse the next months.\n>Good one John.\n>\n> So, I can't understand why all this\n>\"noise\" from some others friends. If somebody watching\n>the \"old grand lady\", it's obvious that something is\n>changed.\n>\n>\n>73, Mak SV1BSX\n>\n>\n>\n>\n>--- John Hackett <[email protected]> wrote:\n>\n> > Hello Roger,\n> > Here's a link to the estimated\n> > eclipse times through to\n> > 2008.\n> >\n> > <http://www.planetemily.com/ao7/Eclipse.php>\n> >\n> > Also, the seasonal statistics of AO-7.\n> >\n> > <http://www.planetemily.com/ao7/stats2.php>\n> >\n> > If you backpeddle you'll see that mode-B becomes\n> > more predominet as the\n> > years go by ... the main parameter being sunlight.\n> >\n> > checkig this against the estimated eclipse times\n> > will land you in the same\n> > part of the ballpark I took my original estimations\n> > from ... but please do\n> > !!! remember, it's all \"logical' speculation.\n> >\n> > There are so many variables. Even some clown with\n> > too much power could upset\n> > the voltage threshhold ... they might even succeed\n> > in turning the old girl\n> > off altogether !!! ... hence the enforced\n> > tight-lippedness re: power and\n> > commands etc.\n> >\n> > I can tell you though, I know what you mean about\n> > mode-A.\n> >\n> > Though I'm a so-called \"experienced\" ... (note the\n> > hyphens !!!) ...operator,\n> > I truly miss the challenge of chasing RS-10 across\n> > the sky while manually\n> > adjusting for doppler. It had an excellent !!\n> > receiver,\n> > an acceptible transmitter, the Robot was novel and\n> > there was plenty of SSB\n> > and plenty of SSB and plenty of CW to keep everybody\n> > happy.\n> >\n> > It rather surprised me that after P3D Amsat chose to\n> > promote an FM satellite\n> > in LEO, thereby limiting the the number of users per\n> > pass dramatically ...\n> > but that debate has been driven into the ground\n> > already.\n> >\n> > The Europeans and Americans have differing views on\n> > this as seen by the mass\n> > exodus of members from Amsat-UK when it became known\n> > that Amsat-UK would\n> > provide substantial funding for an FM satellite.\n> >\n> > Many years ago, when my good friend Russel Tillman\n> > was editor of The Amsat\n> > Journal he explained the policy making ... \"we have\n> > to keep the constructors\n> > happy\" etc ... so as a mere operator, whether you\n> > help to fund things or\n> > not, you get what you are given, take it or leave\n> > it.\n> >\n> > You may ... (or may not) ... find this link amusing\n> > ...\n> >\n> >\n><http://www.observations.biz/Joint_Observations/the_thirteen_commandments.htm\n> >\n> > 73 John.\n> >\n> >\n> >\n> >\n> >\n> > Yahoo! Groups Links\n> >\n> >\n> >\n> >\n> >\n>\n>\n>\n>\n>____________________________________________________________________________________\n>Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car \n>Finder tool.\n>http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/\n\n\n", "attachments": [] }