Do we know what causes these periodic crashes? While it's great these things seem to be usually recoverable, what can be done in future designs to minimize or avoid this kind of downtime. What are the design tradeoffs that may be considered?

Eric AF6EP

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Andrew Glasbrenner < glasbrenner@mindspring.com> wrote:

AO-51 crashed sometime yesterday, and reloading has already been initiated. Please stand by until myself or one of the other command stations releases the bird back to normal use.

73, Drew KO4MA/8

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