I was trying to confirm whether or not AO-27 was going to be ON for the 2141UTC pass on Saturday September 10 here in Southern California. But the AO27.org site has been unavailable. The AO-27 Java app shows OFF at 2037 UTS and not back ON until 2210 UTC ...
Has the Java app been reliable in its predictions three days out?
Clint Bradford, K6LCS 909-241-7666
Hi Clint!
I was trying to confirm whether or not AO-27 was going to be ON for the 2141UTC pass on Saturday September 10 here in Southern California. But the AO27.org site has been unavailable. The AO-27 Java app shows OFF at 2037 UTS and not back ON until 2210 UTC ...
Has the Java app been reliable in its predictions three days out?
Other than compensating for the small drift in the satellite's onboard clock, the Java app is pretty accurate. My app is showing the start time for the repeater on that Saturday afternoon pass at 21:47:16 UTC, which would match up with a west-coast pass between 2141-2155 UTC. Unless the onboard clock and schedule have been reset, expect the start time to be a minute or two before the predicted time.
Good luck and 73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/
The AO-27 site has been down for about 2 weeks. I e-mailed Mike Wyrick, but haven't heard anything back yet.
The Java scheduler app will always be accurate to within 2 minutes (the cumulative error in the satellite's clock) as long as a new schedule hasn't been uploaded to the bird itself. I have also asked Mike to let me know if a new schedule is uploaded before the website is back up.
Inasmuch as one cannot download the required data files for the Java app until the website is back up, I have placed the most recent files (May 2011) on the Java scheduler download page http://sites.google.com/site/ao27satellitescheduler
George, KA3HSW
----- Original Message ----
From: Clint Bradford clintbradford@mac.com To: AMSAT BB amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wed, September 7, 2011 10:43:32 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-27 Site Down
I was trying to confirm whether or not AO-27 was going to be ON for the 2141UTC pass on Saturday September 10 here
in Southern California. But the AO27.org site has been unavailable. The AO-27 Java app shows OFF at 2037 UTS and not
back ON until 2210 UTC ...
Has the Java app been reliable in its predictions three days out?
Chuck Wyrick is on vacation ... He'll be back for us next week.
Clint
On Sep 7, 2011, at 11:15 AM, George Henry wrote:
The AO-27 site has been down for about 2 weeks. I e-mailed Mike Wyrick, but haven't heard anything back yet.
Clint Bradford clintbradford@mac.com
Hi Clint, K6LCS
I am very concerned about AO-27 site has been down for about 2 weeks.
This problem happens when there is only one control station able to manage a satellite.
In my opinion AMRAD should create another control operator just in case like this.
73" de
i8CVS Domenico
----- Original Message ----- From: "Clint Bradford" clintbradford@me.com To: "George Henry" ka3hsw@att.net Cc: "AMSAT BB" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 11:15 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AO-27 Site Down
Chuck Wyrick is on vacation ... He'll be back for us next week.
Clint
On Sep 7, 2011, at 11:15 AM, George Henry wrote:
The AO-27 site has been down for about 2 weeks. I e-mailed Mike Wyrick,
but
haven't heard anything back yet.
Clint Bradford clintbradford@mac.com
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