[amsat-bb] AO-7 status?

Good afternoon,

KK6ZLF in CM87. I am elmering a radio club at the local middle school, and we have a scheduled ARISS QSO coming up in March.

A week from tomorrow, we're going to try to do a few QSOs on the available birds during the club meeting, 22 to 23:00 zulu. One of the passes is AO-7. I saw on the AMSAT site that it is working strictly on solar power. But, this should be a good daytime pass for us.

Does anyone have any recent experience and advice for AO-7?

Thanks, and 73!

Nick

KK6ZLF