[amsat-bb] When are the linear transponders turned on?

[Alan]

SatPC32 will give you eclipse status in real time, or you can manually step
through a pass.  Use the WinListen program to get the parts of passes which
are eclipsed.  The column isn't marked, but there will be an "E" showing.

73s,

Alan
WA4SCA


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<To: Paul Stoetzer <n8hm at arrl.net>
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<Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] When are the linear transponders turned on?
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<Thanks Paul! You answered most of my questions.
<
<The only way that I have found to do pass predictions with SatPC32 is using
<WinAos. I don not see a column for illuminated or not illuminated.
<
<73!
<
<On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Paul Stoetzer <n8hm at arrl.net> wrote:
<
<> Except for AO-7, AO-73, EO-88, LO-87, and EO-79, all of the active linear
<> transponder satellites, including FO-29. are available around the clock.
<>
<> SatPC32 will tell you if a satellite is eclipsed or not. Most other pass
<> prediction software can tell you as well.
<>
<> The XW-2 satellites are all easy to work, though XW-2D has some digital
<> noise in the center of the transponder that seems to make it more
difficult
<> than the others to work.
<>
<> 73,
<>
<> Paul, N8HM
<>
<> On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Mike Lemons <becalmed9 at gmail.com>
<wrote:
<>
<>> I know that AO-73 and EO-88 are on while in eclipse and AO-73 is usually
<>> on
<>> for the full weekend, UTC.
<>>
<>> I often can't hear the transponders 90 minutes after sunset, though. Is
<>> there some kind of delay or are they still illuminated? Is there a pass
<>> predictor software that tells you when they are illuminated?
<>>
<>> When is FO-29 on?
<>>
<>> What about the XW-2 series? (Nobody ever seems to talk about those
<>> satellites. Are they difficult to work?)
<>>
<>> KI6ADN
<>> 73
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