I dunno. V'ger seemed to have a pretty good downlink as I recall.

:-)

W7LRD reports AO-7 is still there post-near miss, so all is well.

73, Drew KO4MA

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From: Gregory Beat gregory.beat@comcast.net Sent: Apr 3, 2013 1:53 PM To: "amsat-bb@amsat.org" amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Update: OSCAR 7 Close Approach Notification

As long as the beacon does not change to V'GER, probably be OK.

w9gb

Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 11:02:57 -0400 (GMT-04:00) From: Andrew Glasbrenner To: amsat-bb Subject: [amsat-bb] Fw: Update: OSCAR 7 Close Approach Notification

This was a little close...I'm interested in reports of AO-7 after 14:13Z today.

73, Drew KO4MA

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The United States Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) has updated a predicted conjunction between OSCAR 7 (SCC# 7530) and SCC# 10306.

Primary Object: OSCAR 7 (SCC# 7530) Secondary Object: SCC# 10306 Time of Closest Approach: 03 APR 2013 14:13 UTC

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