Hello,
On the weekend, during one of the XW-1/HO-68 passes schedulle for change the "beacon/TLM only" to "beacon/TLM + FM repeater" mode, It was clear the temporarily interruption of TLM data flow for their quickly return from the beggining of the TLM frame with new status, exactly on the time combined. So CE3RR was well heard in FM downlink.
My neophyte question is: The satellite was over Chile that time. Do we need an earth ground station in South America, inside the footprint of the satellite, to send the operational changing command to the bird for HO-68 real time answer to the request or only the Chinese controler sent the command, for satellite store the information and, at appropriated time, far way from Asian footprint, HO-68 active the ordered?
Flavio PY2ZX