Very cool stuff on that SmugMug. Love the internal pictures of modules on AO-7. And yes the battery packs look very similar.
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. As its beacon falls near falconsat-3 70cm downlink at 435.103 Mhz. So if they happen to be over the same station at one time I can possibly catch AO-6 if it ever repeats AO-7.
WIlliam KD9KCK
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On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 11:00 PM Nicholas Mahr KE8AKW via AMSAT-BB < [email protected]> wrote:
Hi Bill, If you look on N4HY's SmugMug https://n4hy.smugmug.com/AMSAT it shows pictures of both AO-7 and AO-6 in construction. I can say from studying the pictures of both AO-6's and AO-7's battery packs from that page, that they both look identical in construction as far as i can tell from the picture. Also a quick google search turned up these frequencies: *Uplink* (MHz): 145.900-146.000 *Downlink* (MHz): 29.450- 29.550 *Beacon* (MHz): 435.100. Yes it would very cool if OSCAR 6 came back to life like its brother AO-7. Although having a repeat of AO-7 would be rare, its possible!
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