We'll be trying to get things up and running to support this at VT!
Our ground station is basically down at the moment for upgrades (has been for a while, manual operation only on site, no arm chair remote stuff at the moment or full up automation yet hi hi!, but we're slowly working on that!). We're not sure how bad things will get on those days in SW VA weather wise. Myself and a colleague (and hopefully a student or two) are planning to MacGyver a few things to support these passes manually from the site to collect as much high speed data as we can weather permitting! Plan B is a separate setup that may be more 'expeditious' using personal gear, but again....not sure how bad the weather might get.....
We'll do our best! And we heavily encourage others to participate, this could look really cool! (is this the proof of concept of a satellite arm of SKYWARN....that could be neat....?)
73s,
-Zach, KJ4QLP
Research Associate Aerospace Systems Lab Ted & Karyn Hume Center for National Security & Technology Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Work Phone: 540-231-4174 Cell Phone: 540-808-6305
On 9/11/2018 2:29 PM, JoAnne Maenpaa wrote:
AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN ANS-254.01
In this Special Bulletin:
- AO-92 to Try Imaging Hurricane Florence September 13-14
SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-254.01 ANS-254 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin 254.01 From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD. DATE September 11, 2018 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-254.01
AO-92 to Try Imaging Hurricane Florence September 13-14
AMSAT Vice-President of Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA says that the camera on AO-92 is planned to be used to try to image Hurricane Florence during North American east coast passes on Thursday, September 13, and Friday, September 14.
AO-92 will not be in its U/V FM voice transponder operation during these passes. Ground stations should standby and not attempt to access AO-92 during this time. Voice operation will be available later during these days.
The high speed image data will be transmitted on the 145.880 MHz downlink.
The image can be captured, decoded, and uploaded to the Fox-1 data warehouse using the FoxTelem v.1.06 software available from AMSAT: http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/windows http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/mac http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/linux
[ANS thanks AMSAT Vice-President of Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA for the above information]
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73 and Remember to help keep Amateur Radio in space, This week's ANS Contributing Editor, JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM k9jkm at amsat dot org
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