Hi All I copied 1 packet on the (29) I don't know if it was gated or not but if any body is interested the packet is copied below.
RAFT>BEACON,SGATE [05/29/2007 23:25:11]: <UI>: T#928,086,105,036,068,130,00100000,999
Regards Rob Thirkettle ZL3RX Dept Physics & Astronomy University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8020, New Zealand Tel: +64 3 364 2510 Fax: +64 3 364 2469 mailto:rob.thirkettle@canterbury.ac.nz
Hi,
The current packet within APRS is
RAFT>BEACON,SGATE,qAO,PE1ITR:T#768,079,103,036,067,131,00100000,999
Battery Volts 7.9 Sol Array mA 206 Battery mA 72 Load mA 134 Temperature C 26 Date Wed 30 01:45:11
73
Dave
Robert Thirkettle wrote:
Hi All I copied 1 packet on the (29) I don't know if it was gated or not but if any body is interested the packet is copied below.
RAFT>BEACON,SGATE [05/29/2007 23:25:11]: <UI>: T#928,086,105,036,068,130,00100000,999
Regards Rob Thirkettle ZL3RX Dept Physics & Astronomy University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8020, New Zealand Tel: +64 3 364 2510 Fax: +64 3 364 2469 mailto:rob.thirkettle@canterbury.ac.nz
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Dave Johnson's RAFT telemetry page, and FINDU show the last RAFT packet within APRS was
RAFT>BEACON,SGATE,qAO,PE1ITR:T#768,079,103,036,067,131,00100000, 999
Battery Volts 7.9 Sol Array mA 206 Battery mA 72 Load mA 134 Temperature C 26 Date Wed 30 01:45:11
I expanded the scale on the final temperature plot for RAFT, and it is clear to see the additional data we were getting from all the great volunteer ground stations. Re-entry was probably at 0347z over the southern Indian Ocean as predicted by Harro Zimmer. So although we didn't hear RAFT on that last 0300z pass over the USA, she was there. See the web page.
http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/craft/save-raft.html
If RAFT had reset due to high temps during the sun pass 30 minutes earlier, it would have returned to only 1 minute beacons. But no one reported even hearing any squelch bursts after that last packet.
Throughout the 5 month 9 day mission, the KPC-3+ TNC command and control system only had one automatic re-boot. So it worked very reliably in space. It transmitted probably 1,374,000 packets.
Bob, WB4APR
Hi Bob,
FYI, my database recorded 9294 packets recovered from APRS from RAFT activation, 8663 of which were data packets, the remainder were beacon packets.
Quite an achievement by the volunteer tracking stations.
73
Dave
Throughout the 5 month 9 day mission, the KPC-3+ TNC command and control system only had one automatic re-boot. So it worked very reliably in space. It transmitted probably 1,374,000 packets.
Bob, WB4APR
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