I have been able to wake it up every time I've tried with 5 watts and a horizontal beam, but the signals have indeed been very weak. Usually I can get at least one telemetry packet to decode, but indeed the sigs have been extremely faint recently. I don't think it's re-entering yet, when RAFT went down the pass predictions became very inaccurate, yet ANDE is still on schedule. Perhaps the batteries are getting low... (ANDE has no solar panels, just a bunch of D-cells)
-Joe, N8FQ
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 20:34:46 -0000 "Chris Bloy" chris@photofuture.co.uk wrote:
Hi Bob and all,
ANDE has been even weaker than normal over the last few passes, not been able to copy the telemetry at all.. also haven't seen it on pcsat.findu.com, so does this mean re-entry is due/passed already?
I will monitor over the next few days, but also not heard FCAL for a few either?
Thanks.,
Chris