Not wanting to be a naysayer, but this was discussed a few weeks ago on Amsat-bb with the word from the mission staff that no external power connection was provided. In other words it runs on solar-charged batteries. Of course, we know they had some sort of "bench power connection" for testing. I hope the "folks" on the ISS are good technicians and can "rig up" something. There was a concern the batteries might drop off in storage until this summer when the "Main Show" is to happen.
Of course maybe they can "duck tape" it outside and let it run on the panels/batteries? OK that was in jest (humor).
I only have operational is a 2m Lindenblad CP omni directional antenna that is probably not good enough to hear ARISSat when down at the horizon and at max range. Just luck that my 2m-eme system is out of commission at present else I would had a excellent receiver.
GL and 73's Ed - KL7UW
At 09:19 AM 4/11/2011, Nitin Muttin wrote:
Nothing heard on the 16.20 UTC pass, watch the live feed from ISS from http://spaceflight.nasa.gov looks like the crew is working on addressing the issue, the last comment I heard is recharging the batteries ( Please excuse if I am wrong J ).
73's
Nitin [VU3TYG]
From: Nitin Muttin [mailto:vu3tyg@amsatindia.org] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 8:24 PM To: 'amsat-bb@amsat.org' Cc: 'amsatindia@yahoogroups.com' Subject: ARRISSat Reception 14.45 UTC
All,
Nothing heard from the ARRISSat-1 on 145.950 / 437.550 and 145.919 during the 14.42 UTC pass over India.
73's
Nitin [VU3TYG]
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