I am submitting an update to the AMSAT WSR page to show Sapphire as dead.
Sapphire was declared non-operational on 22 March 2007 by Mike Swartout of Washington University (one of the original (then students) who built Sapphire at Stanford). The last known contact was by Bill, KB2RC on 5 Nov 2004. (his QSL report was just from a copied email, so if anyone else wants to claim last contact, lemme know...)
Bob
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert
Bruninga
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 9:49 AM To: 'amsat bb' Subject: [amsat-bb] Sapphire Operational?
OK, apparently Genesat is operational.
How about Sapphire? NO45. I saw a report on dcarr's web page about 3 days ago, but no reporting callsign was given so I
could
ask for confirmation. Its AMSAT web page is very much out of date too... As the launching party, I will get this corrected and declare sapphire as dead unless someone has info to the contrary.
I tried to connect to it today with zeero response.
Bob
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert
Bruninga
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:12 AM To: 'amsat bb' Subject: [amsat-bb] Genesat-1 Operational?
The AMSAT SATS page says that GENESAT-1 is operational It is not listed on D Carr's web page as being reported by anyone. We listended for it with a class of students today and heard nothing at around 11:15 EST.
Google finds nothing but reports of OPERATIONAL, but then
none
of them are newer than January 08.
If anyone else can confirm that it is non operational, then
I'll
inform the AMSAT web site guru to remove its operational
status.
Thanks Bob, WB4APR
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