Re: [amsat-bb] ao40 Beacon

["Rick Fletcher, KG6IAL" <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Replaying the orbit in Nova relative to the timestamps of the last packets
of telemetry I received, the bird was approaching eclipse, so the sun angles
may have been suboptimal. The last packet, timestamped 00:58:41z, showed Vin
#1 of 17.05v.

Let's wish the control team luck and think good thoughts...

73,

Rick, KG6IAL
www.teksharp.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <vlfiscus@mcn.net>
To: <amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org>
Cc: <snyderb@cox.net>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ao40 Beacon


> ----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Snyder <snyderb@cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] ao40 Beacon
>
> BB
>    I was monitoring the beacon IF matrix watching for the shift to
passband
> at MA 40. At MA 40.6 the shift still did not occur, at MA 40.7 the beacon
> went dead and is still not active at 01:46 UTC.
>
> 73 Bruce KG4YEV
>
>
>
> I got an email that said Batt voltage was around 17-18V, but the bird is
in sunlight.  I would thing they could have a downlink going in some small
way and also send a trickle to the batteries.  Can you look at your last
BLOCK and see what the battery voltage was?
>
> KB7ADL
>
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