[amsat-bb] XW-2A, C and F Operation

Wed Mar 30 00:18:57 UTC 2016

On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 20:03:04 -0400, Mike Sprenger <mikesprenger at gmail.com> wrote:

> I worked the XW- train a few weeks back for the first time. 
> 
> They work great.  If you haven't yet then just  Put these three Sats in
> your tracking software !!!!  You'll be glad you did 

How embarrassing -- I... I hadn't realized the transponders were active
yet. I thought they were only beacons.

Well. If that's the case, there are some days I could theoretically have
near constant xponder coverage of some kind!

Right, I know what I'm doing this weekend.

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