3 May
2010
3 May
'10
7:02 p.m.
This evening I enabled the power management software on AO-51. If everything works right, the repeater should run at 1.01 watt while in sun, and 290 milliwatt while in eclipse and after exiting eclipse until the batteries recover to ~7.9 volts. Observations from the southern hemisphere while entering and leaving eclipse would be very helpful...we know it is getting used from the WOD files. I'll post a map where the satellite is being used soon.
73, Drew KO4MA