Will have a listen for it over the weekend Bob while I clean up after the mid-winter storms that hit the whole country this week. 2" of water in the garage to deal with tomorrow.... 73 Geoff ZL3GA Christchurch New Zealand RE66ho ------------------------------------------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:26:31 -0400 From: "Robert Bruninga" [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Vanishing PCSAT? To: "'Robert Smith'" [email protected] Cc: 'AMSAT-BB' [email protected] Message-ID: [email protected] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
I've probably missed the "answer" on AMSAT but where is PCSAT?
Good question! I was going to send you the standard response saying she is napping in the dark, but just did a quick check myself and PCSAT (W3ADO-1) has not been heard since 2 July at 11:52:39 and the last station to digipeat through it was SP9UX on the 5th at 04:09:14 and the last USA station was W4AEJ on the 1st at 14:04:28...
But I also notice that PCSAT passes are at night over the Northern Hemisphere where everyone lives. Maybe we can wake up someone down-under to see if they can listen for PCSAT (W3ADO-1) NO-44 on 145.825 MHz... May not decode it, but should be able to hear it attempting to send a packet once a minute.. Only in the sun, of course...
So Robert, thanks for bringinig this to our attention... PCSAT was launched on 30 Sept 2001.
Bob, Wb4APR