[amsat-bb] Re: XW-1 Schedule on Dec 19

[Bruce Robertson]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:33 PM, P.H. <bbjunkie at f2s.com> wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> First of all I'd like to thank you and all those involved in the XW-1
> project, so far it appears to have been very successful indeed.
>
> Would it be possible when publishing schedules that you do it in a
> similar format to that Jan-Albert uses for SO-67 ?
>
> i.e. include the continent being covered. - I'm sure everyone would
> find this helpful.
>
> Example:
>
>> Sat 19 Dec 2009
>> 00:06...Japan
>> 00:24...Australia
>> 01:43...Asia
>> 07:56...Europe
>
> I don't wish to sound ungreatful for your hard work, just pointing out
> how much easier it would be for everyone. If for some reason this
> isn't possible, then I (and im sure others) won't be offended.
>
> Thanks once again
>
> 73
> Pete
>
> MI3EPN
>

Hi, Pete --

I, too, prefer the format you propose. However, I note that the SO-67
team found that they didn't have the time to do that for us this time.
I imagine these commissioning groups are very busy. However, in the
case of SO-67, something great happened: Luc just stepped in and
converted these raw hours to locations for us on that thread.

So I'd propose that we distribute the workload a bit and a) request of
the satellite groups only hours and days; b) have one or more of us
here on the list convert these to lists of hours, days and locations.
It would be great if someone volunteered to do this every time, but I
wonder if it might be better to just allow whoever has SatPC32 (or
whatever) up and running to do this if it isn't yet done.

73, Bruce
-- 
http://ve9qrp.blogspot.com

> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Alan Kung <alankung at public3.bta.net.cn> wrote:
>> XW-1 FM and digital store-forward transponder will work on Dec. 19 at
>>
>> On:  1146UTC
>> Off: 1206UTC
>>
>> 73
>> Alan Kung, BA1DU
>> XW-1 Project Manager
>>
>>
>>
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