Yesterday afternoon (T-Day) there was a good high elevation pass over DM04 around 2300 UTC. AO-51 was extremely weak but I was still able to make out some voice just above the noise floor using my TH-F6a and SRH-320a whip antenna. When the conversation ended I gave my callsign followed by my grid square and just before the sat dropped below the horizon I was able to make out a male with a subtle accent calling me back. It almost sounded like K6VUG whom I talked to just an hour before on AO-27, but I cant be sure. Anyways, shes weak but hangin in there and certainly a tough bird. Hopefully she will be around a while longer.
On 11/25/2011 14:39, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
Next pass the repeater was still on but that the very low power levels we saw earlier. I crashed the IHU and attempted to restart, but ran out of elevation. More after tomorrow's afternoon passes.
Just as an FYI, and to answer some emails sent privately to me, AMSAT-Fox is designed to continue in "zombie" mode despite a battery or IHU failure, while maintaining control to FCC standards. See page 4 of http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/fox/Fox1Systems.ppt
73, Drew KO4MA