Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-27 Schedule driver?
As near as I can tell, it is now on a strictly time-driven, repeating schedule lasting 1:40:48, with the analog mode starting 20 seconds into the schedule and lasting 6 minutes.
Ah, thanks. Now we are getting close. That is exactly one orbit, so they are turning it on for 6 minutes at the same "latitude" every orbit. Now, if I just understood what that target latitude is, then again, that is all anyone needs to know to always predict when AO-27 is intended to be on, without having to refer to any special programs or tools. Thanks, Bob, WB4APR
I think I have read most of the pages, but I cannot find the
one
thing I am looking for, and that is the top-level "rules"
that
are driving the new scheduling. I am not talking about code
or
epoc or anything like that, but simply, the human logical "rules" that tell the schedule, what to schedule...
In the past, the TEPR algorithm was very simple and could be explained as "time since entering the sun". This was easy
to
interpret and anyone could easily visualize or "see" what
this
meant realitive to his time of day, and location. Nothing needed to be consulted... Just look at the track of the satellite on the map and your relation to the terminator,
and
you know if it is useable..
The TOPR schedule seems to be wholy "time" driven from EPOC,
but
I have not been able to find what the top-level "rules" are
that
drive that algorithm so that I can learn to visualize it.
The
new on-line "schedules" are teriffic, and a good example of computer dissimination of live info, but it requires
detailed
consultation of printed schedules daily and having to match times with orbits, I'd rather just understand what the
scheduler
"intended".
Is this new schedule system still driven by the simple rule
of
"turning it on for X minutes after entering the sun"? Or is
it a
smarter rule that says "turn on over USA, Europe, Australia
and
Japan?" or, "turn on over those countries only while in the sun", or, turn on for 10 minutes out of every hour, or what?
So, can someone point me to this top-level "rule" that is
used
to drive the schedule? For routine operations, it is easier
to
learn the rule, than to have to look at a schedule every
day...
Thanks Bob, Wb4APR
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