Given the historical issue with AO-6 not staying on, simply listening will probably not suffice. I expect it needs to be commanded on, and be sane enough to comply, in order for us to hear anything.
But, yes, could be an interesting thing to try. AO-7's command processor was still somewhat functional, if I recall. Now we just need to figure out how to send the commands...
Greg KO6TH
Douglas Quagliana via AMSAT-BB wrote:
This idea sounds very interesting. Are you going to search for overlapping passes by hand and listen by ear or do you have a plan for automating the search?
73, Douglas KA2UPW/5
On Aug 24, 2019, at 11:29 PM, Bill Gaylord via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
I might try and take advantage of its beacon being near another sats downlink to try and hear it on the SatNOGS network to do some checking in on it now and then.
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