Is it possible that it reset because someone used too much power on the bird? It's common knowledge to use the lowest power you can on any satellite, however I know some people crank it up and even use amplifiers which many times makes the bird unusable for others.
73 de W4AS Sebastian
On Dec 16, 2008, at 9:03 PM, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
That is odd. The satellite is still well illuminated, so it might be that the user load peaked at a particularly bad instance and the buss dropped enough to reset the timer. Pure speculation on my part though!
73, Drew KO4MA
----- Original Message ----- From: k3szh@netzero.net To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 8:48 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] AO7
AO7 at 01:18 utc was in mode "B" , what a surprise from the earlier pass that was in mode "A". I believe it will stay in mode "B" for some time. 73 Joe Amsat 3788