According to Mark L. Hammond (N8MH) by the way of Rich, Falconsat-3 has to be switched on for use and that last only a short period of time which would explain the lack of reports and interest.

I believe someone said it only had a few months to live.

Hopefully Bill and I can get set up for packet and make a contact or two before dies.

Hands on experience would be beneficial.

I’ve been studying the Pacsat links of AC2CZ’s site as well as his ground station code.

You are correct.  Some of the terminology and assumptions reflect a bygone era.

While cleaning out a storage closet a year or so ago I threw away an original 8 inch IBM floppy from about 1975.

It truly flopped!

Jim McCullers

WA4CWI

All,

Here is an interesting Pacat link maintained by Chris Thompson AC2CZ. You will see copies of some of the original papers by Harold Price and Jeff Ward and others. It's a trip back though history.

Harold mentions the IBM PC and I can remember I had a S100 system at this time with 8 inch floppies.

https://g0kla.com/pacsat/

Looking at the AMSAT activity tracker I see Falconsat-3 has no heard reports in a while and a few people are looking.

Bob N5BRG