Hi Folks,

Falconsat-3 seems to be good shape, and the reloading of the software
went "better than expected."  As of 1750utc 27 June 2021, it's back in
business and open for use.  The digitpeater function is turned ON, so
that should be working again, too.

Users of Pacsat Ground Station (PSGS) should consider "directory
archiving to 0 headers" as a quick trick to clear out the old directory
information.  After a crash and reload like this, the files start over
again at the beginning (like file number 100). Also, you might see your
station requesting files that no longer exist.  That should eventually
clear itself, but you may need to manually tell PSGS to not download the
old files you had queued up to get before the crash.

The bird was last reloaded like 3.5 years ago!  That's an amazing record
of stability from an impressive bird.  Tilt of the hat to Jim White WD0E
who created it...  It was an expensive bird when the Air Force developed
it, as I recall, and you can see that sometimes you get what you pay for ;)

Sorry it wasn't ready for Field Day weekend...just couldn't pull that off.


73,

--
Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]
AMSAT Director and Command Station


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