That is the expected behavior of the status page, otherwise it would quickly clog with satellites no one is listening for.
I used Flyby to run the prediction that appeared in ANS. Flyby is a modern and more fully-featured fork of PREDICT for Linux that I find very useful. I’m looking forward to seeing when that timer triggers the mode change and maybe making a few Mode A QSOs during this period.
Flyby can be found at https://github.com/la1k/flyby. It can be installed on Arch Linux and derivatives using the flyby-git package in the Arch User Repository. Users of other distributions will have to build it manually.
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 05:43 Alan via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Tom,
According to ILLUM, the last eclipse was 1 minute on 10 Oct, and the next eclipse will be 1 minute on 1 December. PREDICT presents things slightly differently, and gives the period of full illumination as 9 Oct to 2 December.
Apparently a status line times out if there is no data for a period of time, but not the dropdown box. Just for fun, I put in a Not Heard report, and the Mode A status line is back. Who knew?
73,
Alan WA4SCA
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