I was engrossed in other online discussions today and didn't see this until 4:22 PM Mountain time on the AMSAT-BB list.
I'm pretty sure I can reach Rick KB0VBZ and get his beacon turned off. Will try anyway.
He's local here (moved west into the mountains, but still "local" I guess) and one of the former "lead guys" of the Colorado AMSAT Net.
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John (N0VSE), do you have a current phone number for Rick to see if we can get his unattended beacon to PCSAT turned off, so the control stations can get into it successfully and command it?
I can't find one in either of the PC's here at the office, but I might have something at home in CRA paperwork describing how to reach the various Net Controllers for the various nets on the repeater system. I won't be home until well after 6PM Mountain, though.
I'll give you a call too...
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Nate WY0X
Alan Sieg WB5RMG wrote:
WB4APR sez:
We restored PCSAT on the first orbit this morning at 1315z, but it did not hold. On the next pass at 1500z, the one-good shot at a restoration was consumed by someone still digipeating via W3ADO-1 and his packet took all the power, and our logon was unsuccessful.
Looks like maybe a couple of 'unattended' beacons . . . Maybe someone has an email address or phone number for these guys .??. They obviously have not gotten the word.
(raw packets via http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/pcsat.cgi?absolute=1 ) 20081209163914 : KB0VBZ]SYSWUS,W3ADO-1*,qAS,KC0WIF-1:`r[Rl `/]=SYSWUS
20081209163710 : KB0VBZ]SYSWUS,W3ADO-1*,qAR,WM5Z-1:`r[Rl `/]=SYSWUS
20081209163435 : KB0VBZ]SYSWUS,W3ADO-1*,qAS,W7XZ-6:`r[Rl `/]=SYSWUS
20081209163424 : W3ADO-1]BEACON,SGATE,qAS,W7XZ-6:T#002,138,136,136,137,214,11111111,0001,1
20081209163023 : W3ADO-1]BEACON,SGATE,qAS,W7XZ-6:T#001,030,089,055,028,214,11111111,0000,1
20081209145842 : W3ADO]APRS,W3ADO-1*,qAR,KI4HDU-2:Ping...# 1
20081209145645 : VE3FFR]APRS,W3ADO-1*,SGATE,WIDE,qAR,KI4HDU-2:=4416.01N/07629.01W- (UIV32N)
20081209145532 : KB0VBZ]SYSWUS,W3ADO-1*,qAR,NK8X-3:`r[Rl `/]=SYSWUS
20081209145437 : KB0VBZ]SYSWUS,W3ADO-1*,qAR,K9DRX:`r[Rl `/]=SYSWUS
20081209145131 : KB0VBZ]SYSWUS,W3ADO-1*,qAR,XE1KK-1:`r[Rl `/]=SYSWUS
20081209132317 : NODIGI]BEACON,SGATE,qAo,VE2DMA:T#020,159,160,061,209,214,00110111,0111,1
20081209132121 : PCSAT-11]BEACON,SGATE,qAR,KC2APG-1:T#005,136,054,056,063,215,00110111,0000,1
Thanks /;^)