I was monioring the last pass also and nothing was heard, this last pass was a good pass and should have been in full sunlight. I will also make an attempt to upload the command to switch the heater off on the next pass (around 11.13UTC) good luck everyone regards Gus M0IKB
----- Original Message ----- From: "Henk, PA3GUO" [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 10:51 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] COMPASS-1 recovery attempt 0940utc (17/8): failed
All,
COMPASS should have been in sunlight this morning (0940utc) over Europe.
Encouraged by the positive results from ZL, I was hoping to be able to upload the commands into the satellite.
However, none of my commands was answered by a 'beep' from COMPASS.
Henk, PA3GUO, The Netherlands http://www.pa3guo.com
All,
During the entire pass (max 72 degrees elevation) I have submitted the commands (mostly only the first one, a few times all four of them shortly after eachother).
However, I have not heared a single tone on the downlink so we must assume this attempt failed.
Henk, PA3GUO http://www.pa3guo.com
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