Congratulations Jonathan and the CAPE 1 team
I see an initial report on W0KRPs site suggests that the satellite is running on solar panel power alone as there is no battery current shown in telemetry.
If that's correct: My congratulations to the designer of the EPS who has found the solution to that age old AMSAT problem of not killing the satellite when the batteries fail
But my commiserations on the batteries.
73
David G0MRF
In a message dated 23/04/2007 19:13:29 GMT Standard Time, jonathan@jonathanwagner.net writes:
Mike and the rest of the list,
CAPE-1 almost perfectly tracks with Object 31129. AOS on the last pass was 30secs. after predicted and LOS 10-20 secs. before predicted. Frequency was nominal. There is a building that is directly in the line of sight when on the AOS horizon which affects the lower 1 or 2 degrees elevation (The building is a 3-story building and we have a 20 ft tower on top of a 2 story building. Frequency was nominal and rotor and frequency control were left to the radio. Signal strength was S7 on a 4 degree pass.
Jonathan Wagner, KE5FSG
Hi David, Just listened for CAPE1 on the pass with AOS at 2107 UTC here in Copenhagen. Very good signals S-7 when CAPE1 was in the dark. Still not sure about which keps are the best. OBJECT M/N/P are close - but the next couple of days will tell :-) 73 OZ1MY Ib ----- Original Message ----- From: G0MRF@aol.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 10:01 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: CAPE's Back
Congratulations Jonathan and the CAPE 1 team
I see an initial report on W0KRPs site suggests that the satellite is running on solar panel power alone as there is no battery current shown in telemetry.
If that's correct: My congratulations to the designer of the EPS who has found the solution to that age old AMSAT problem of not killing the
satellite
when the batteries fail
But my commiserations on the batteries.
73
David G0MRF
In a message dated 23/04/2007 19:13:29 GMT Standard Time, jonathan@jonathanwagner.net writes:
Mike and the rest of the list,
CAPE-1 almost perfectly tracks with Object 31129. AOS on the last pass was 30secs. after predicted and LOS 10-20 secs. before predicted. Frequency was nominal. There is a building that is directly in the line of sight when on the AOS horizon which affects the lower 1 or 2 degrees elevation (The building is a 3-story building and we have a 20 ft tower on top of a 2 story building. Frequency was nominal and rotor and frequency control were left to the radio. Signal strength was S7 on a 4 degree pass.
Jonathan Wagner, KE5FSG
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