ANDE 1 and 2 Report Dec 16 2007: still all working fine ! ========================================================= - ANDE now getting to only 210 km height - Footprint getting smaller - AND: still more and more stations make contacts !! =========================================================

14:35 CET / 50 degrees elevation pass: Was able to logon to ANDE-2 at 20 degrees elevation and set TE 1 (twice, to get value confirmed). Result: ANDE-2 works fine, TE 1 was set to 10 seconds successfully !

20071216144007 : ANDE-2]BEACON,qAO,OE1VKW: T#013,002,015,014,007,006,01000000,746 20071216143956 : ANDE-2]BEACON,qAO,OE1VKW: T#012,122,154,153,152,155,10101110,746 20071216143947 : ANDE-2]BEACON,qAO,PE1ITR: T#011,135,048,051,048,213,11100001,746 20071216143947 : PA3GUO-8]APRS,ANDE-2*,qAO,PE1ITR::ANDE 2 OK ! 20071216143926 : ANDE-2]BEACON,qAO,OE1VKW: T#009,002,050,038,028,024,01000000,746 20071216143916 : ANDE-2]BEACON,qAO,PE1ITR: T#008,122,155,154,153,155,10101110,746 20071216143906 : ANDE-2]BEACON,qAO,OE1VKW: T#007,135,048,051,048,213,11100001,746 20071216143856 : ANDE-2]BEACON,qAO,OE1VKW: T#006,122,168,117,001,029,00000010,746 20071216143846 : ANDE-2]BEACON,qAo,DL8DR: T#005,002,015,014,007,006,01000000,746 <-- as of here 10 seconds interval 20071216143821 : ANDE-2]BEACON,qAo,DL8DR: T#003,122,170,117,001,029,00000010,617 <-- just before this TE 1 was set ... 14:38:13 !TELEMTRY was 1 WAIT <-- confirmation: period was already 10 seconds 14:38:11 !prompt:TE 1 <-- re-issue of TE 1 to get confirmation 14:38:04 !prompt:TELEMTRY was 5 WAIT <-- confirmation of ANDE-2 14:38:02 !TE 1 <-- set telemetry rate to 10 seconds ... 20071216143729 : ANDE-2]BEACON,qAo,DK3WN-1:T#002,002,062,047,036,031,01000000,000 <-- beacon because side B is awake 20071216143657 : PA3GUO-8]APRS,ANDE-2*,qAo,DK3WN-1:waking up side B ... 20071216143641 : ANDE-2]BEACON,qAO,PE1ITR: T#001,122,158,158,156,157,10101110,000 <-- beacon due to the wake up of side B 20071216143559 : PA3GUO-8]APRS,ANDE-2*,qAO,PE1ITR:waking up side B ... <-- waking up side B

13:05 CET pass: ANDE is now flying faster, so less and less time is available each pass. Tried to logon to ANDE-2 during the 78 degrees elevation pass,but only after 2 attempts I got logged on. However, I was not able to submit the TE 1 command on time. My link got broken as can be seen below:

20071216130702 : PA3GUO-8]APRS,ANDE-2*,qAO,PE1ITR::ALL : Hello 20071216130657 : ANDE-2]BEACON,qAO,PA3GUO:T#002,002,015,014,008,007,01000000,696 20071216130628 : PA3GUO-8]APRS,ANDE-2*,qAO,PE1ITR:C DISC2 20071216130615 : PA3GUO-8]APRS,ANDE-2*,qAO,PA3GUO:TE 1 20071216130410 : ANDE-2]APRS1,SGATE,qAO,PA3GUO::BLN1ANDE :ANDE-1 only wakes up 1 of evry 15s for users. Pse conserve. 20071216130356 : PA3GUO-8]APRS,ANDE-2*,qAO,PA3GUO:waking up ANDE 2

APRS users: OK1DNT, OE1VKW, PA3GUO, F9XG, DL8DR, SP8RSL, F1IKD-6, F1SRC, SQ2RH

APRS QSO: 20071216130748 : PA3GUO-8]APRS,ANDE-1*,qAO,SP7THR-3::OK1DNT : QSL 20071216130711 : OK1DNT]CQ,ANDE-1*,qAO,SM7WSJ::PA3GUO-8 :ok1dnt@seznam.cz good afternoon OM op. Denis Hello frm Teplice 73!

ANDE-1 downlink: 20071216130732 : PA3GUO-8]APRS,ANDE-1*,qAo,DK3WN-1::ALL : http://www.qsl.net/pa3guo 20071216130723 : ANDE-1]BEACON,qAO,PA3GUO:T#004,135,048,051,048,214,11100001,000 20071216130453 : ANDE-1]BEACON,qAO,PA3GUO:T#001,121,141,139,138,137,10101110,000

73 - Henk, PA3GUO http://www.qsl.net/pa3guo