[amsat-bb] Any update on AO-85?

[Loren M. Lang]

When I first that AO-85 was having issues and had entered safe mode, I
decided I should go out and help collect some of the telemetry with my
handheld yagi. From what I recall, I didn't help have any trouble hearing
the beacon and was able to get FoxTelem to decode two frames during that
one beacon. I then decided it was too cold to wait for the next beacon and
went back inside. It did get me thinking, how likely is it that my attempt
there to collect those frames was unique? I have credit for them on the
dashboard, but were those duplicates from others or were those telemetry
packets ones that might never have been captured if I didn't go outside to
collect them?

Just curious,
Loren
K7IW


On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 5:20 PM Burns Fisher <burns at fisher.cc> wrote:

> We have not had any time to look at it trying to deal with the launch and
> testing of AO-95 (Fox-1Cliff).  We let it turn into safe mode when it had
> some odd behavior.  However, the safe mode telemetry seems to be fine.  I'm
> surprised that the power seems low to you.  It should be sending two strong
> frame of telemetry and then "resting" for two minutes, then repeating.
>
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 7:33 PM Hans BX2ABT <hans.bx2abt at msa.hinet.net>
> wrote:
>
> > As per title. With my limited setup I am not able to decode any
> > telemetry from AO-85 anymore. It still comes through the squelch on my
> > rig+discone, but S/N ratio on my SDR+ArrowAlaska is about half what it
> > normally was and with fading added there is no long enough sequence for
> > decoding frames.
> >
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