[amsat-bb] PCSAT2 Telemetry

[David Johnson <g4dpz@xxxxxxx>]

Hi David,

Great weekend at the colloquium, good to see everyone again and to  
catch up with the news.
Extremely suprised to get the G3AAJ cup and even more poignant this  
year.


> Some note as to the meaning of the different colours would be good.  
> Is it current, old, and very old? But which is which.

Our main concern was for the NASA observers to have a site up and  
running on day one. The colours are well
known to them. We can now catch our breath and create a key on the  
page. It's hasn't been worth doing as we've already
had a load of changes from the primary users :-)

The 'age' of the data is identified by the what we refer to as the  
'latency' colour of the frame '00','01','10','11' with the lighter
blue colour being the latest received. A pass over a ground station  
may miss one of the frames and it's good to know
the context of the data.

>
> "live telemetry being uploaded by W7XXX"   would be a good  
> incentive to get people to contribute. I see the odd call nr the  
> top but not sure if that's the last contributor, last heard or  
> currently connected station.

That's the last packet heard, I.e. the last contributor. In the long  
term we'll have separate pages for a league table
and telemetry history. We are also planning a better 'status'  
reporting mechanism for the general user. This page
is intended to quickly convey raw data.

73

Dave
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