I’m not the expert but it is my understanding there was possible an explosion or something similar that crippled it.
Chad
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On Sep 22, 2017, at 1:54 PM, Ryan Butler rbutler@tsss.org wrote:
I was thinking of this a while back, has a command station attempted to contact it recently?
Unlike AO-7 my understanding is that it will not just 'wake up' and start beaconing as the transmitter (either V or U) that was that failsafe transmitter is non-functional.
So without intervention to turn on a S band TX if a cell was to open up, it'd just sit their quietly. Is that a correct understanding?
Ryan, NF0T
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Alan wa4sca@gmail.com wrote:
It gives the Epoch for the Keps as:
Epoch (UTC): 21 September 2017 01:11:23
So that would be a yes.
73s,
Alan WA4SCA
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