Will have a listen for it over the weekend Bob while I clean up after the mid-winter storms that hit the whole country this week. 2" of water in the garage to deal with tomorrow.... 73 Geoff ZL3GA Christchurch New Zealand RE66ho ------------------------------------------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:26:31 -0400 From: "Robert Bruninga" bruninga@usna.edu Subject: [amsat-bb] Vanishing PCSAT? To: "'Robert Smith'" dukenuke@pixi.com Cc: 'AMSAT-BB' amsat-bb@amsat.org Message-ID: 87F3E4F76CCC497BB4FEA3697A899391@ewlab.usna.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
I've probably missed the "answer" on AMSAT but where is PCSAT?
Good question! I was going to send you the standard response saying she is napping in the dark, but just did a quick check myself and PCSAT (W3ADO-1) has not been heard since 2 July at 11:52:39 and the last station to digipeat through it was SP9UX on the 5th at 04:09:14 and the last USA station was W4AEJ on the 1st at 14:04:28...
But I also notice that PCSAT passes are at night over the Northern Hemisphere where everyone lives. Maybe we can wake up someone down-under to see if they can listen for PCSAT (W3ADO-1) NO-44 on 145.825 MHz... May not decode it, but should be able to hear it attempting to send a packet once a minute.. Only in the sun, of course...
So Robert, thanks for bringinig this to our attention... PCSAT was launched on 30 Sept 2001.
Bob, Wb4APR
Will have a listen for it over the weekend Bob while I clean up after the mid-winter storms that hit the whole country this week.
Actually, I was wrong. PCSAT passes are not all in the dark in the northern hemisphere, and I should have no problem listening here... so don't sweat it. Good luck with the Storm damage...
Bob
water in the garage to deal with tomorrow.... 73 Geoff ZL3GA Christchurch New Zealand RE66ho
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Message: 6 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:26:31 -0400 From: "Robert Bruninga" bruninga@usna.edu Subject: [amsat-bb] Vanishing PCSAT? To: "'Robert Smith'" dukenuke@pixi.com Cc: 'AMSAT-BB' amsat-bb@amsat.org Message-ID: 87F3E4F76CCC497BB4FEA3697A899391@ewlab.usna.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
I've probably missed the "answer" on AMSAT but where is PCSAT?
Good question! I was going to send you the standard response saying she is napping in the dark, but just did a quick check myself and PCSAT (W3ADO-1) has not been heard since 2 July at 11:52:39 and the last station to digipeat through it was SP9UX on the 5th at 04:09:14 and the last USA station was W4AEJ on
the
1st at 14:04:28...
But I also notice that PCSAT passes are at night over the Northern Hemisphere where everyone lives. Maybe we can wake
up
someone down-under to see if they can listen for PCSAT
(W3ADO-1)
NO-44 on 145.825 MHz... May not decode it, but should be able to hear it attempting to send a packet once a minute.. Only
in
the sun, of course...
So Robert, thanks for bringinig this to our attention... PCSAT was launched on 30 Sept 2001.
Bob, Wb4APR
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Actually, I was wrong. PCSAT passes are not all in the dark in the northern hemisphere, and I should have no problem listening here... so don't sweat it.
Just did. PCSAT is still there. It responded to digipeating and command logon attempts, but as usual, has not enough uuumph to complete even an ACK packet. Best sun angle is when latitude is around 45 degrees, but even then, it cannot complete even the shortest downlink packet.
We just have to wait for better sun in the Fall and winter...
Bob, WB4APR
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