When will NO-84 have enough sunlight that we can use PKS-31 again?
Eclipse durations will start to fall on November 29th. This period looks particularly good, with NO-84 in constant sunlight from 11:02 UTC on December 7th until December 14th at 13:56 UTC.
12/06/2015 15:55 -> 12/06/2015 16:10 duration: 15 min 12/06/2015 17:30 -> 12/06/2015 17:44 duration: 14 min 12/06/2015 19:05 -> 12/06/2015 19:19 duration: 14 min 12/06/2015 20:40 -> 12/06/2015 20:54 duration: 14 min 12/06/2015 22:15 -> 12/06/2015 22:28 duration: 13 min 12/06/2015 23:50 -> 12/07/2015 00:03 duration: 13 min 12/07/2015 01:26 -> 12/07/2015 01:37 duration: 11 min 12/07/2015 03:01 -> 12/07/2015 03:11 duration: 10 min 12/07/2015 04:36 -> 12/07/2015 04:46 duration: 10 min 12/07/2015 06:12 -> 12/07/2015 06:20 duration: 8 min 12/07/2015 07:47 -> 12/07/2015 07:54 duration: 7 min 12/07/2015 09:23 -> 12/07/2015 09:29 duration: 6 min 12/07/2015 10:59 -> 12/07/2015 11:02 duration: 3 min 12/14/2015 13:56 -> 12/14/2015 13:59 duration: 3 min 12/14/2015 15:29 -> 12/14/2015 15:35 duration: 6 min 12/14/2015 17:04 -> 12/14/2015 17:11 duration: 7 min 12/14/2015 18:38 -> 12/14/2015 18:46 duration: 8 min 12/14/2015 20:12 -> 12/14/2015 20:21 duration: 9 min 12/14/2015 21:47 -> 12/14/2015 21:57 duration: 10 min 12/14/2015 23:21 -> 12/14/2015 23:32 duration: 11 min 12/15/2015 00:56 -> 12/15/2015 01:07 duration: 11 min 12/15/2015 02:30 -> 12/15/2015 02:42 duration: 12 min 12/15/2015 04:04 -> 12/15/2015 04:17 duration: 13 min 12/15/2015 05:39 -> 12/15/2015 05:52 duration: 13 min 12/15/2015 07:14 -> 12/15/2015 07:27 duration: 13 min 12/15/2015 08:48 -> 12/15/2015 09:03 duration: 15 min 12/15/2015 10:23 -> 12/15/2015 10:38 duration: 15 min
Calculations courtesy of DK3WN's Illum program.
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Jerry Pixton jpixton@shentel.net wrote:
When will NO-84 have enough sunlight that we can use PKS-31 again?
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When will NO-84 have enough sunlight that we can use PKS-31 again?
You can check its telemetry on http://pcsat.aprs.org and if you see the T#nnn serial numbers going over 60, then that means it is not crashing. I just checked and it seems to be doing fine. So as far as I am concerned, I think it is safe to use.
But if it starts resetting every eclipse, then backoff.
Bob, Wb4APR
On 22-Nov-15 1025, Robert Bruninga wrote:
When will NO-84 have enough sunlight that we can use PKS-31 again?
You can check its telemetry on http://pcsat.aprs.org and if you see the...
when I try the link u provide, I seem to always end up on "http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/pcsat.cgi"
this on either of my computers. Thus I didn't find the PCSAT Telem reporting page that I could check.
Last night, and for the first time, for me, I decoded my CQ's as well as some ground station lads conversing directly on 10m .
I was using DopplerPSK.jar and the downlink of mine was quite stable on the QRG .
That's the right page. It captures every packet via APRS satellites. At the bottom of the page you can see the raw telemetry packets from PCSAT, PSAT, and W3ADO-1. If PSAT-1 is showing a T#XXX telemetry counter more than 60, then it is surviving eclipses. Bob
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Bob KD7YZ
When will NO-84 have enough sunlight that we can use PKS-31 again?
You can check its telemetry on http://pcsat.aprs.org and if you see
the...
when I try the link u provide, I seem to always end up on
"http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/pcsat.cgi"
this on either of my computers. Thus I didn't find the PCSAT Telem reporting page that I could check.
Last night, and for the first time, for me, I decoded my CQ's as well as some ground station lads conversing directly on 10m .
I was using DopplerPSK.jar and the downlink of mine was quite stable on the QRG .
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On 23-Nov-15 0833, Robert Bruninga wrote:
... If PSAT-1 is showing a T#XXX telemetry counter more than 60, then it is surviving eclipses.
OK. So let me get this right then: I see this on that page:
01:19:08:00 : PSAT-1]APOFF,ARISS,qAR,KB1CHU:T#262,854,346,806,757,813,00011100 ------------------------------^^^^^----------------------------
T#262's value then is 262? Thus higher than 060. And therefore fairly safe to use PSK31 on the bird.
Yes?
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