Hi Many , VU2WMY
Great job from ISRO and AMSAT-India ! We hope to have again VO52 active in the next few days because it was the best satellite available with a linear transponder to be used "only on CW and SSB"
73" de
i8CVS Domenico
----- Original Message ----- From: "Eugenio Piluso" [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 10:33 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: HAMSAT VO-52 Status
Great news!!! Thank you Mani and Government of India/ISRO for your nice job I hope to listen the VO-52 beacon and transponder (mainly my dear friend i8CVS) as soon as possible... '73 de iz8jhd . Eugenio
________________________________ Da: Mani VU2WMY [email protected] A: Stefan Wagener [email protected] Cc: Amsat - BBs [email protected]; Nitin Muttin [email protected] Inviato: Martedì 6 Marzo 2012 8:52 Oggetto: [amsat-bb] HAMSAT VO-52 Status
Hello All, Looking at the discussions and the concerns expressed about VO-52,all that I can share at this moment is 'HAMSAT VO-52' is in 'Excellent Health' after recovery operations. Right now, it is under observation. However, decision about switching 'ON' the transponder is pending clearance. Decision expected in other couple of days. The user community will be informed well in advance about the transponder switching.
Note:
'HAMSAT VO-52' is the property owned, operated and maintained by the Government of India/ISRO. Hence, unlike other amateur radio satellites owned, operated and maintained by non-governmental agencies, detailed information cannot be shared with anyone in accordance with the prevailing governmental regulations.
Hope this bit of information would remove the doubts and concerns about the HAMSAT VO-52 status and this is shared with you all with the concurrence of 'HAMSAT VO-52' Operations Director, Mr. T. Parimalarangan.
with regards,
Mani, VU2WMY Secretary & Station-In-Charge Upagrah Amateur Radio Club VU2URC ISRO Satellite Centre HAL Airport Road, Bangalore-560 017. Phone:(O)91-80-25082054/2598/2192 Mobile: 91-80-98803 41456 E-mail ID: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Quoting Stefan Wagener [email protected]:
Maybe yes, maybe no.
He did it because he wanted to, NOT because we demanded it!
Stefan, VE4NSA
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:43 PM, i8cvs [email protected] wrote:
Hi Stefan VE4NSA
When AO40 was in trouble, did Stacey Mils W4SM control station wasting his time with his daily reports on AMSAT-BB ?
73" de
i8CVS Domenico
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefan Wagener" [email protected] To: "i8cvs" [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; "Nitin Muttin" [email protected]; "Amsat - BBs" [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 2:23 AM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: Status VO-52
As much as I appreciate the concerns, I rather have the team working on getting the satellite up and running again.
I don't need weekly updates! When they have something important to say they will. It's that simple. Don't waste their time.
Stefan, VE4NSA
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 5:56 PM, i8cvs [email protected] wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "PE0SAT" [email protected] To: "Nitin Muttin" [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 7:45 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Status VO-52
Hi Nithin,
Is there a way that you, ISRO or Amsat India can keep us (Ham Radio community) informed about the status of VO-52.
The silence around VO-52 gives me a bad feeling.
Maybe it is possible to gives us an update lets say every week? More frequent is also welcome ;-)
73 Jan PE0SAT
Hi Jan, PE0SAT
I agree with you because I am interested to know if the Indian transponder has been switched or not with the Dutch transponder and what the result was.
The silence around VO-52 make me concerned because after AO-51 died probably VO-52 in my opinion has been used to much in FM all over the world determining a deterioration of the batteries.
We need VO-52 because OSCAR-7 is strongly FMing and the rest of satellites except FO-29 are in very bad conditions.
I would like to receive an official report about the VO-52 situation from ISRO through AMSAT-India very often, I agree with you every week or less.
I remember that when AO40 was in truble we got a dayly report on AMSAT-BB every day from Stacey Mills,W4SM because he was the main command station of the bird and this make a great difference.
I can't understand why the command station for VO-52 must be ISRO using not amateur frequencies enstead of AMSAT India using the amateur bands.
Best 73" de
i8CVS Domenico