Re: [amsat-bb] Access to AO40 at mid orbit (was AO40 reschedule......)

["Greg D." <ko6th_greg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dave,

This morning the transponder went off at exactly MA 240, right
in the middle of my reply to WB6LLO in San Diego.  I think I
got to the "6", and then nothing...

Gerg  KO6TH


>From: Dave <nr1dx@arrl.net>
>To: amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org
>Subject: [amsat-bb] Access to AO40 at mid orbit (was AO40 reschedule......)
>Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 19:31:44 +0000
>
>Ok everyone thanks for helping me to reconfigure my Eudora email client to 
>correctly read the columns on the schedule.
>
>Several wrote and said that the transponder is now on continuously now from 
>MA80 to MA216 with no gap, in spite of the implied one from the 
>"OFF@=Variable" appearing in the schedule. The implication is that this 
>note is an "artifact" from when RUDAK was active and had just not been 
>removed from the schedule. To further confuse me however this morning I 
>observed the following; at around MA143 I was hearing the MB a good 3-4 S 
>units above the noise. The tracking program I use (WinOrbit) said the Squit 
>was only 5 degrees yet I was unable to access the satellite even with 150 
>Watts and a 15 element yagi. I also heard no other stations on the bird. I 
>infer from this one of two things; (1) Either the transponders are in fact 
>turned off at MA143 (beginning at MA @ when ever that was)..... OR 
>(2)WinOrbit is incorrectly reporting the squint and no one (including 
>myself) can get in because the Squint is really bad and WinOrbit didn't get 
>the message.
>
>
>Still confused in NH
>
>Dave
>
>PS: please no more emails about Eudora....I must have received more than 25 
>8^).. all I really want to do is work this satellite more effectively.
>
>
>
>>N  QST AMSAT AO-40  S2 Downlink   @=variable    2002-08-25
>>         MA      020   036   080   OFF@  216   240   020
>>         ---------7-----4-----1-----3-----5-----0-----7
>>         MB       |  *  |     |  *  |     |  *  |  *  |
>>         RUDAK    |     |     |     |  *  |     |     |
>>         V-Rx     |     |     |     |  *  |     |  *  |
>>         U-Rx     |  *  |  *  |  *  |     |  *  |     |
>>         Passband |     |     |  UL |     |  UL |     |
>>
>>
>>---W4SM for the AO-40 Command Team
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>  _______________________________________________________________________
>>  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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>Dave
>NR1DX
>nr1dx@arrl.net
>
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