[amsat-bb] AO-40 Update

["Stacey E. Mills" <w4sm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

ALON/ALAT
*********
Current ALON/ALAT ~20/0
We will continue to move forward slowly over the next few weeks until we 
reach ALON = 45 degs.


RUDAK
*****
RUDAK will be ON the following days this week:
Aug 6     TUE
Aug 7     WED
Aug 10    SAT
Aug 11    SUN


ECLIPSES
*********
Starting August 13th, AO-40 will begin to experience prolonged eclipses 
(see table below).  In order to deal with these, we will need to turn the 
S2 transmitter off during the eclipse period.  To do this will require two 
lines of the scheduler.  Therefore, we will need to terminate the VRx 
Wednesday session during this time. The schedule will be modified near the 
end of this week.  The VRx session will be active this week.


                 Ephemeris Dated: 2002  Aug  01 [Thu]
                          Entry      Exit        DUR             IN     OUT
        DATE            HH:MM:SS   HH:MM:SS   HH:MM:SS    ONO    MA      MA
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------
   2002  Aug  13 [Tue]  03:00:32   03:16:19   00:15:47    820   31.1   34.7
   2002  Aug  15 [Thu]  12:18:41   13:02:35   00:43:54    823   30.8   40.6
   2002  Aug  20 [Tue]  07:07:27   08:28:12   01:20:45    829   32.9   50.9
   2002  Aug  25 [Sun]  02:02:32   03:54:43   01:52:11    835   36.4   61.4
   2002  Aug  30 [Fri]  16:14:16   18:36:57   02:22:41    842   42.1   74.0
   2002  Sep  05 [Thu]  06:36:24   09:17:47   02:41:23    849   50.2   86.2
   2002  Sep  10 [Tue]  01:58:57   04:39:23   02:40:26    855   59.8   95.6
   2002  Sep  15 [Sun]  17:00:14   18:59:33   01:59:19    862   76.6  103.3
   2002  Sep  18 [Wed]  22:52:07   23:08:40   00:16:33    866   95.7   99.4


--W4SM for the AO-40 Command Team



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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
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