With any luck, AO-7 will outlive (or perhaps it already has) the IBM punch card that caused the whole 5-digit thing in the first place. Of the constants in the universe, the first one is 42, immediately followed by either 72 or 80, depending on your background. We apparently had programmers define the KEPs format, as both lines are 71 characters long... :)
Greg KO6TH
(For source code, columns 73-80 were reserved for sequence numbers, so that when you dropped your deck, the cards could be reassembled in the proper order.)
Alan wrote:
Tom Clark, K3IO (ex-W3IWI) once observed that AO-7 was the only amateur satellite known to have suffered two catastrophic failures, thereby returning it to service. Hi HI
73,
Alan WA4SCA
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