And Lord knows, there are a couple of "regulars" on there that ALWAYS uplink with way too much power, causing the AGC to "pump" on everyone else's signal....
George, KA3HSW
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Glasbrenner" glasbrenner@mindspring.com To: "graham mcphee" gemcphee@bigpond.com Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 3:22 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO7 mode B
It's hard to say for sure, but generally any significant drop in power from the panels can cause the timer to reset. This could be from a too strong uplink, a partial or full regular orbital eclipse, or even from passing through the shadow of a solar eclipse. We just recently recorded the effect of AO-51 passing through the recent partial solar eclipse over EU. I'll have to look to see if the shift occurred coincident to that on AO-7 or not.
73, Drew KO4Ma Sent from my iPhone