Interesting that this seems to only happen on ascending passes. This problem has not been reported on descending passes.
Hopefully this is just a symptom of sun angles on the solar panels at the present point in it's orbit and when panel illumination improves, it will become more reliable.
Of course, any orbit with the transponder functioning is and has been a bonus for the last 12 years.
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 4:24 PM, PY5LF py5lf@falautomation.com.br wrote:
Paul
AO7 don't support our QSO ( PY5LF, PV8DX, PT9BM) today and stop again around 20:20UTC , even when advise the people onboard to reduce the power.
Sorry
73
PY5LF
Luciano Fabricio
Curitiba-PR-BR GG54jm
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