AO-7 historic orbit approaching
Hey everyone,
Based on the AO-7 Log Web page, AO-7 is about to begin its 56,000th orbit!
The next pass over the USA, which begins for me in Northeast Georgia at roughly 01:12 UTC (8:12 p.m. Eastern Standard Time) will be part of that orbit.
I hope somebody might come up and hear a CW signal around 29.445 (the Grand Old Girl is in Mode A). I think it would be awesome to have a contact on orbit 56k!
73 to all,
Tim - N3TL
Somebody just emailed me off the board suggesting that AO-7's "odometer has rolled," and that this is actually orbit No. 156.000!
She deserves to be busy, I think, and I hope a lot of you agree.
73 to all,
Tim -------------- Original message from n3tl@bellsouth.net: --------------
Hey everyone,
Based on the AO-7 Log Web page, AO-7 is about to begin its 56,000th orbit! The next pass over the USA, which begins for me in Northeast Georgia at roughly 01:12 UTC (8:12 p.m. Eastern Standard Time) will be part of that orbit. I hope somebody might come up and hear a CW signal around 29.445 (the Grand Old Girl is in Mode A). I think it would be awesome to have a contact on orbit 56k!
73 to all,
Tim - N3TL _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
Definitely rolled.
Back of the envelope calculation:
2008-1974 = 34 years in orbit, at 365 days per year is about 12,000 days, times 16 orbits per day gets you to 192,000 orbits. I guess the orbital period is a bit longer than that, so yeah, 156k sounds about right.
Man, that's a lot of orbits.
Greg KO6TH
From: n3tl@bellsouth.net To: AMSAT-BB@amsat.org Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:21:29 +0000 Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-7 historic orbit approaching
Somebody just emailed me off the board suggesting that AO-7's "odometer has rolled," and that this is actually orbit No. 156.000!
She deserves to be busy, I think, and I hope a lot of you agree.
73 to all,
Tim -------------- Original message from n3tl@bellsouth.net: --------------
Hey everyone,
Based on the AO-7 Log Web page, AO-7 is about to begin its 56,000th orbit! The next pass over the USA, which begins for me in Northeast Georgia at roughly 01:12 UTC (8:12 p.m. Eastern Standard Time) will be part of that orbit. I hope somebody might come up and hear a CW signal around 29.445 (the Grand Old Girl is in Mode A). I think it would be awesome to have a contact on orbit 56k!
73 to all,
Tim - N3TL _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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