On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:33 PM, P.H. bbjunkie@f2s.com wrote:

Hi Alan,

First of all I'd like to thank you and all those involved in the XW-1 project, so far it appears to have been very successful indeed.

Would it be possible when publishing schedules that you do it in a similar format to that Jan-Albert uses for SO-67 ?

i.e. include the continent being covered. - I'm sure everyone would find this helpful.

Example:

...

Sat 19 Dec 2009 00:06...Japan 00:24...Australia 01:43...Asia 07:56...Europe

I don't wish to sound ungreatful for your hard work, just pointing out how much easier it would be for everyone. If for some reason this isn't possible, then I (and im sure others) won't be offended.

Thanks once again

73 Pete

MI3EPN

Hi, Pete --

I, too, prefer the format you propose. However, I note that the SO-67 team found that they didn't have the time to do that for us this time. I imagine these commissioning groups are very busy. However, in the case of SO-67, something great happened: Luc just stepped in and converted these raw hours to locations for us on that thread.

So I'd propose that we distribute the workload a bit and a) request of the satellite groups only hours and days; b) have one or more of us here on the list convert these to lists of hours, days and locations. It would be great if someone volunteered to do this every time, but I wonder if it might be better to just allow whoever has SatPC32 (or whatever) up and running to do this if it isn't yet done.

73, Bruce