Shut Down of VE3FFR PCSAT Beacon
For All Concerned
Doug has shut down his PCSat beacon, see below Cheers & 73 Chip, VA3KGB
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From: Douglas Richards ve3ffr@cogeco.ca Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 10:08 PM To: va3kgb@rac.ca Subject: Re: Shut Down your PCSAT Beacon Please from Bob, WB4APR
Chip
If you could pass on to others. I shut it down when I saw the message from Bob, around 1100hrs this morning.
Thank you
73
Doug
On 12/27/2011 7:58 PM, CJ Chapman wrote: from the AMSAT list - This message is for you Doug Cheers Chip
Message: 13 Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:35:32 -0500 From: "Bob Bruninga" To: , , , , Cc: 'TAPR APRS Mailing List' , amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Kingston ON, or Watertown NY? Message-ID: 045501ccc4ad$2badab90$830902b0$@edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Anyone near Kingston Ontario or Watertown, NY that can contact VE3FFR?
His email is not listed with QRZ and I need to ask him to shut down his PCSAT beacon. This would reduce the load on PCSAT so that maybe I can get a command in to get control and maybe make a recovery.
Next recovery effort will be dawn passes on Wed 28 Dec 2011.
PCSAT is almost responding. I only need to get one exchange of packets successfully to do a recovery.
We need everyone to turn off all transmitters and reserve PCSAT power so we can complete the command/ack sequence.
You may continue to work the ISS, but ONLY if it is in view and is operating. Otherwise, please, no transmissions on 145.825. No unattended beacons... Adding also to the 145.825 channel QRM is UO-11 that appears to also have come back to life.
Thanks,
Bob, WB4APR
If you could pass on to others. I shut it down when I saw the message from Bob, around 1100hrs this morning.
Great! Thanks doug. Sorry for the hassle, I probably sent my email prematurely, because after I sent it, I zoomed in on APRS.FI and that's when I not only saw your home station's info with your real email address but also that you were at that instant mobile in your -9.
Duh..., so I sent you an APRS message from my radio to your mobile, but apparently just missed you, because I could see that you were no longer in your car at that point. Having just missed you a few minutes.
Glad to see APRS texting worked so well!
Today's efforts to recover PCSAT were hampered a little by UO11 which has also happened to come back alive.. I got connected, and got the first commands in, but it only held up about 11 minutes total before it died again. I'll try again on Thursday Morning.
Bob, WB4APR
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