[amsat-bb] Re: RS-15 heard again

[w7lrd@comcast.net]

I have tried at times to give it a shot of RF uplink, "just in case".  I mean after all AO-7 came back to us!  Maybe it just needs enough up RF to jump start it.  Does anyone know what it's final demise was from?
73 Bob W7LRD

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"if this were easy, everyone would be doing it"

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Auke de Jong, VE6PWN" <sparkycivic at shaw.ca> 

> I just copied the beacon on 29.351, after not hearing anything for a long tmie. 
> It's sending relatively short duration pulses today... 1 second on, 2 seconds 
> off, give or take... later in the ascending pass(as I write this) , times are up 
> to greater-than 4 seconds off /.75 seconds on Does that mean the spacecraft is 
> warm? 
> 
> Strange, that this is the ONLY mode-A signal around these days-besides AO-7 if 
> she feels like it ;) 
> 
> 
> 
> Auke de Jong 
> VE6PWN 
> DO33go 
> Edmonton, AB 
> 
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