This evening I enabled the power management software on AO-51. If everything works right, the repeater should run at 1.01 watt while in sun, and 290 milliwatt while in eclipse and after exiting eclipse until the batteries recover to ~7.9 volts. Observations from the southern hemisphere while entering and leaving eclipse would be very helpful...we know it is getting used from the WOD files. I'll post a map where the satellite is being used soon.
73, Drew KO4MA
Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
I'll post a map where the satellite is being used soon.
73, Drew KO4MA _______________________________________________
http://s139.photobucket.com/albums/q305/glasbrenner/?action=view%C2%A4t=AO51...
Quick and dirty, but it gets the point across I hope. The red roughly represents the areas where the AO-51 V/U repeater was being used. Over 24 hours the on time is averaging ~45%.
73, Drew KO4MA
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