AO-7 Mode A on the AMSAT status page
As I understand, AO-7 will begin doing 24 hour mode switches about now. So I went to the status page on AMSAT.org and see that the Mode A listing is no longer there. Since it was in a long period of eclipse shutdowns, probably got dropped inadvertantly. Also looking forward to learning when the switch time is nailed down.
Tom Schuessler, N5HYP EM12ms
Tom,
According to ILLUM, the last eclipse was 1 minute on 10 Oct, and the next eclipse will be 1 minute on 1 December. PREDICT presents things slightly differently, and gives the period of full illumination as 9 Oct to 2 December.
Apparently a status line times out if there is no data for a period of time, but not the dropdown box. Just for fun, I put in a Not Heard report, and the Mode A status line is back. Who knew?
73,
Alan WA4SCA
<-----Original Message----- <From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Tom <Schuessler, N5HYP via AMSAT-BB <Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2019 22:30 PM <To: amsat-bb@amsat.org <Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-7 Mode A on the AMSAT status page < <As I understand, AO-7 will begin doing 24 hour mode switches about now. So <I went to the status page on AMSAT.org and see that the Mode A listing is no <longer there. Since it was in a long period of eclipse shutdowns, probably <got dropped inadvertantly. Also looking forward to learning when the switch <time is nailed down. < <Tom Schuessler, N5HYP <EM12ms < < < <_______________________________________________ <Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available <to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions <expressed <are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT- <NA. <Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite <program! <Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
That is the expected behavior of the status page, otherwise it would quickly clog with satellites no one is listening for.
I used Flyby to run the prediction that appeared in ANS. Flyby is a modern and more fully-featured fork of PREDICT for Linux that I find very useful. I’m looking forward to seeing when that timer triggers the mode change and maybe making a few Mode A QSOs during this period.
Flyby can be found at https://github.com/la1k/flyby. It can be installed on Arch Linux and derivatives using the flyby-git package in the Arch User Repository. Users of other distributions will have to build it manually.
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 05:43 Alan via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Tom,
According to ILLUM, the last eclipse was 1 minute on 10 Oct, and the next eclipse will be 1 minute on 1 December. PREDICT presents things slightly differently, and gives the period of full illumination as 9 Oct to 2 December.
Apparently a status line times out if there is no data for a period of time, but not the dropdown box. Just for fun, I put in a Not Heard report, and the Mode A status line is back. Who knew?
73,
Alan WA4SCA
<-----Original Message----- <From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Tom <Schuessler, N5HYP via AMSAT-BB <Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2019 22:30 PM <To: amsat-bb@amsat.org <Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-7 Mode A on the AMSAT status page < <As I understand, AO-7 will begin doing 24 hour mode switches about now. So <I went to the status page on AMSAT.org and see that the Mode A listing is no <longer there. Since it was in a long period of eclipse shutdowns, probably <got dropped inadvertantly. Also looking forward to learning when the switch <time is nailed down. < <Tom Schuessler, N5HYP <EM12ms < < < <_______________________________________________ <Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available <to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions <expressed <are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT- <NA. <Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite <program! <Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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