We will announce when AO-85 is commissioned and turned over to Operations for scheduled use.

Meantime due to travel and work, it has been a little hit and miss on testing this week. Nothing has been said yet about any scheduled testing because it has been a matter of whether our people are home to test and if the satellite is in view of enough of us to gather data. I expect that we'll just continue that at least for tonight, so the satellite will be available but might just disappear into Data or Safe Mode during a U.S. pass... :-)

If we go into Data Mode all who recognize that and can switch to and gather the high speed telemetry with FoxTelem are appreciated.

Jerry Buxton, NØJY

On 10/30/2015 16:04, Dave Remnant wrote:

Thanks Jerry

Also received reply from Kevin

I know you guys are still commissioning so I guess notice of changes will be rare, if at all.

Do you plan on some form of notice when commissioning over?

Thanks to you and all the team.

Dave

-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Buxton Sent: 30 October 2015 20:52 To: Dave Remnant Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] No TLM on AO-85 during 20:15 UTC pass.

Hi Dave,

We commanded into Data Mode during that pass, so what you heard was the high speed telemetry data and when you hear that again you can decode by switching FoxTelem to high speed on the input tab. AO-85 will switch back to Transponder Mode automatically after 15 minutes in Data Mode.

Jerry N0JY

On Oct 30, 2015 3:35 PM, Dave Remnant dave.remnant@ntlworld.com wrote:

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The TLM was making some strange noises and the "eye" was distorted and I received no packets from AO-85

I could hear the transponder fine, but switching between the transponder audio and the TLM shows the difference.

I have video of this if any of the team are interested.

Was this planned or is it something I may have done inadvertently?

73 de Dave M0SAT

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