Good Afternoon all,
This week we will be doing some a few things with AO-92 out of the ordinary.
First, we will again attempt to image a hurricane (Michael this time) with the Virginia Tech camera onboard AO-92. This will take place Wednesday and Thursday mornings on the passes over the Gulf of Mexico. When you hear me announce the mode change or the command signals on the repeater, please stand by. All stations are encouraged to set up FoxTelem to copy the high speed data during these passes.
Second, at the request of the folks at Microwave Update, we will switch to L/v Thursday night for 24 hours. It is my understanding there will be some testing of new antennas for the L band uplink at their antenna range onsite. I don't anticipate to run L/v on Sunday as normal.
All this is assuming Hurricane Michael stays on track and doesn't swerve east and rearrange or force me to lower my antennas.
73, Drew KO4MA
If the switch to L Band on AO-92 is successful, please listen Friday morning for N1JEZ/8 from EM79 at Microwave Update. The first at ~ 10:37 local is only 10 degrees. I expect there could be blockage from surrounding buildings. The second at ~ 12:10 local is 39 degrees and should be good.
We will be testing a prototype L Band antenna from WA5VJB. It should be fun! Tnx to Drew and AMSAT for making the switch.
Mike
On 10/9/2018 12:56 PM, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
Good Afternoon all, This week we will be doing some a few things with AO-92 out of the ordinary.
Second, at the request of the folks at Microwave Update, we will switch to L/v Thursday night for 24 hours. It is my understanding there will be some testing of new antennas for the L band uplink at their antenna range onsite. I don't anticipate to run L/v on Sunday as normal.
Hopefully I will be back on L/V Thursday also, still unpacking from my yearly trip south....
73 Jeff kb2m
-----Original Message----- From: Mike Seguin Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 5:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AO-92 Ops this week
If the switch to L Band on AO-92 is successful, please listen Friday morning for N1JEZ/8 from EM79 at Microwave Update. The first at ~ 10:37 local is only 10 degrees. I expect there could be blockage from surrounding buildings. The second at ~ 12:10 local is 39 degrees and should be good.
We will be testing a prototype L Band antenna from WA5VJB. It should be fun! Tnx to Drew and AMSAT for making the switch.
Mike
On 10/9/2018 12:56 PM, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
Good Afternoon all, This week we will be doing some a few things with AO-92 out of the ordinary.
Second, at the request of the folks at Microwave Update, we will switch to L/v Thursday night for 24 hours. It is my understanding there will be some testing of new antennas for the L band uplink at their antenna range onsite. I don't anticipate to run L/v on Sunday as normal.
Don't be discouraged by the last set of hurricane pictures. We were unlucky and the spacecraft was unstable. See my analysis here: http://www.g0kla.com/workbench/2018-10-07.php
Right now the spacecraft is stable and we *should* get a better set of pictures. So if you can copy high speed telemetry, please point your antennae at AO-92 and try to decode an image line or two. Any single line is helpful as we stitch the whole photo back together on the server.
73 Chris g0kla / ac2cz
On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 12:56 PM Andrew Glasbrenner < [email protected]> wrote:
Good Afternoon all,
This week we will be doing some a few things with AO-92 out of the ordinary.
First, we will again attempt to image a hurricane (Michael this time) with the Virginia Tech camera onboard AO-92. This will take place Wednesday and Thursday mornings on the passes over the Gulf of Mexico. When you hear me announce the mode change or the command signals on the repeater, please stand by. All stations are encouraged to set up FoxTelem to copy the high speed data during these passes.
Second, at the request of the folks at Microwave Update, we will switch to L/v Thursday night for 24 hours. It is my understanding there will be some testing of new antennas for the L band uplink at their antenna range onsite. I don't anticipate to run L/v on Sunday as normal.
All this is assuming Hurricane Michael stays on track and doesn't swerve east and rearrange or force me to lower my antennas.
73, Drew KO4MA
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