On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Bruce Robertson ve9qrp@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Mike Rupprecht mail@mike-rupprecht.de wrote:
Hi all,
I got a lot beacons and we can see that COMPASS survives all the eclipses. The battery voltage is increased to 3.67 volts.
Please keep on trying to listen the beacon and send the following commands:
on the trans-Atlantic ascending pass at around 23:55UTC on Sept. 7, I seem to have succesfully commanded COMPASS. At least it gave a beep after the second command. Moreover, I heard (very chirpy!) telemetry from it. Once I hunted for the signal with RIT, I lost a bit of it, but the last elements seem to be 201800b72903 unfortunately, the beacon decoder will not take a partial beacon, so someone else will need to decode this.
It was a great thrill to be part of the effort to sustain this project. Thanks to all involved for requesting our assistance and entrusting us with this task
73, Bruce VE9QRP
At the ascending pass around 01:40UTC Sept 8th, I received confirmation on all four commands. Moreover, I once again got beacon telemetry. 29000000000000201800bb2902, which reads as battery at 3.67V, heatermode: off and power level: emergency.
73, Bruce VE9QRP