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RE: AO-10 Keps
These elements cause NOVA update satellite utility to crash here; can't
remember any other set of elements doing this. I even tried cleaning them
up to:
Satellite: AO-10
Catalog number: 14129
Epoch time: 98318.86783
Inclination: 26.7600 deg
RA of node: 58.4820 deg
Eccentricity: 0.59972
Arg of perigee: 265.8370 deg
Mean anomaly: 216.5650 deg
Mean motion: 2.05838221 rev/day
Decay rate: 0.00 rev/day^2
but they still crash the program.
Don't know if its the decay rate of zero, the lack of an epoch revision, or
what, but they aren't working here. I would have stuck in an epoch rev to
see what happened, but I'm not savy enough to know if putting in a dummy
variable would affect the accuracy, and am concerned that I would have lost
my current AO-10 keps in the experiment.
73 from
Roger Rehr W3SZ ex-AA3QK ex-WA3JYM
mailto:rrehr@epix.net FN20ah
http://www.epix.net/~rrehr
2 Merrymount Road, Reading, PA 19609
610.670.8687
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org [mailto:owner-AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org]On
> Behalf Of Stacey Mills
> Sent: Sunday, November 15, 1998 8:34 AM
> To: Amsat Bulletin Board
> Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-10 Keps
>
>
>
> AO-10 continues to function well, with the exception of the
> usual QSB which
> is better or worse at different portions of the orbit.
> Strong signals were
> heard last night, event out at apogee.
>
> James Miller and I have obtained additional ranging values
> and tweaked the
> AO-10 keps. Here is an updated set of elements. The initial
> set I posted
> had a typo which set the value of decay to "0.0 e0", which,
> of course is
> mathmatically equal to "1". The decay rate should be set to
> zero for these
> elements.
>
> Satellite: AO-10
> Catalog number: 14129
> Epoch time: 98 318.86783
> Inclination: 26.7600 deg
> RA of node: 58.4820 deg
> Eccentricity: 0.59972
> Arg of perigee: 265.8370 deg
> Mean anomaly: 216.5650 deg
> Mean motion: 2.05838221 rev/day
> Decay rate: 0.00 rev/day^2
>
> The article James wrote describing ranging can be found in the Amsat
> Journal (US) Vol 20 No.5, Sep/Oct 1997 and elsewhere, and the
> article can
> be downloaded from:
>
ftp://ftp.amsat.org/amsat/articles/g3ruh/a123.zip
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Stacey E. Mills, W4SM WWW: http://www.cstone.net/~w4sm/ham1.html
Charlottesville, VA PGP key: http://www.cstone.net/~w4sm/key.asc
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