[amsat-bb] Re: K5D from CM98kx?

[Ben Jackson]

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Greg D. wrote:
> Does anyone know if either of the sats being used by K5D have a
> mutual window with CM98kx (that would be me)?  I just realized that
> none of my software knows how to compute this, and all of the passes
> I've looked at don't appear to cover us both.  If there is a pass, it
> seems like it would be vanishingly low on the south eastern horizon.

Greg:

I ran CM98 and FK68 through some software that Mark K6HX wrote a while
back (and I begged him to send to me... Mark, have you released it yet?)
and the results are not promising:

bbj at kuroshio:~$ mutual AO-51 CM98kx FK68gj
bbj at kuroshio:~$ mutual SO-50 CM98kx FK68gj
|| 2009/02/23 21:31:00 | CM98kx   +0.1 107.6 | FK68gj   +0.6 295.9 ||
|| 2009/02/23 21:31:15 | CM98kx   +0.2 105.6 | FK68gj   +0.7 297.9 ||
|| 2009/02/23 21:31:30 | CM98kx   +0.3 103.6 | FK68gj   +0.9 300.0 ||
|| 2009/02/23 21:31:45 | CM98kx   +0.3 101.5 | FK68gj   +1.0 302.0 ||
|| 2009/02/23 21:32:00 | CM98kx   +0.3  99.5 | FK68gj   +1.0 304.1 ||
|| 2009/02/23 21:32:15 | CM98kx   +0.3  97.5 | FK68gj   +1.1 306.2 ||
|| 2009/02/23 21:32:30 | CM98kx   +0.3  95.4 | FK68gj   +1.1 308.3 ||
|| 2009/02/23 21:32:45 | CM98kx   +0.2  93.4 | FK68gj   +1.1 310.4 ||
|| 2009/02/23 21:33:00 | CM98kx   +0.1  91.4 | FK68gj   +1.0 312.5 ||
|| 2009/02/23 21:33:15 | CM98kx   +0.0  89.4 | FK68gj   +0.9 314.5 ||

bbj at kuroshio:~$ mutual ARISS CM98kx FK68gj
bbj at kuroshio:~$

How good is your setup? ;)

				~Ben

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Ben Jackson - N1WBV - New Bedford, MA
bbj <at> innismir.net - http://www.innismir.net/
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