Interestingly, the last two attempts (two nights ago, and this evening) to repeat this have failed. I briefly tried the other uplink frequency, 145.980, tonight, without success either. I did hear 4 or 5 beacon packets from FAST1 (they're quite distinctive, with all the "G"s in them), so everything else seems to be in order. Most of them decoded, but I had APRSISCE/32 configured to not pass beacons from RF->IS, so they didn't get posted. I believe there were also couple of other packets from the satellite as well but they didn't decode at all.
So, either I had incredible luck earlier with the packets that did go through, or we now have a lot of other folks trying to uplink, with the result that the satellite isn't hearing anything that can be retransmitted. I am concerned that this weekend's attack on the satellite will be totally ineffective, because an overloaded is nearly equivalent to one that is totally empty. Neither full nor empty will accomplish the command team's objective of increasing the Transmit duty cycle, to drain the batteries.
Anybody else having any success recently?
Greg KO6TH
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 18:26:44 -0500 From: ldeffenb@homeside.to To: k8tl@earthlink.net CC: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Fast1
Steve (G6UIM) and Greg (KO6TH) have been discussing this on the APRSISCE Yahoo group (messages below). Greg confirmed Steve's comment that FAST1 is uplinking on 145.825 and downlinking on 437.345. He managed to bounce a few packets through it as well as capture some telemetry (also shown below).
Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
(Note: Times are Eastern US, UTC-0500)
2011-12-08 00:35:04 FAST1>BEACON,qAR,KO6TH-13:F11G0GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG211006311 022 019 020 022 024 2011-12-08 00:35:06 KO6TH-13>APWW08,FAST1*,qAR,KO6TH-13::KJ4ERJ :Hi Lynn... another try via FAST1{BM} 2011-12-08 00:38:20 KO6TH-13>APWW08,FAST1*,qAR,KO6TH-13::KJ4ERJ :good signal received on last tx. Yea!{BN} 2011-12-08 00:38:24 KO6TH-13>APWW08,FAST1*,qAR,KO6TH-13::KJ4ERJ :good signal received on last tx. Yea!{BN} 2011-12-08 00:38:40 KO6TH-13>APWW08,FAST1*,qAR,KO6TH-13::KJ4ERJ :good signal received on last tx. Yea!{BN} 2011-12-08 00:39:02 KO6TH-13>APWW08,FAST1*,qAR,KO6TH-13::KJ4ERJ :You still awake? 2011-12-08 00:39:04 FAST1>BEACON,qAR,KO6TH-13:F11G0GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG207105289 022 020 020 022 023 2011-12-08 00:42:04 FAST1>BEACON,qAR,KO6TH-13:F11G0GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG264006286 022 020 020 022 022
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Steve Daniels <steve@daniels270.eclipse.co.uk mailto:steve@daniels270.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
FAST1 is up on 145.825MHz and down on 437.345MHz according to their recent news release.Frequencies confirmed. I managed to bounce a few through FAST1 this evening with these frequencies (with doppler shift factored in by the computer).
Greg KO6TH
On 12/8/2011 10:08 AM, Tom Lubbers K8TL wrote:
Has anyone had any positive results?? I have beaconed with 1200 and 9600, nothing.
After the 0330Z pass did copy RS0ISS on the same frequency pair, boy was my element set off!!
Happy Holidays
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