[amsat-bb] AO-92 Camera Passes this week -- A big fat THANK YOU!!

[John Brier]

Awesome Zach.

Thats sounds like it was a fun time.

Congrats to all involved in making things like this possible.

73, John Brier KG4AKV

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 12:16 Zach Leffke <zleffke at vt.edu> wrote:

> Hello fellow AMSAT'ers,
>
> I just wanted to send out a quick thanks to all for supporting the
> camera passes over the last couple days.  We did a demo here at VT on
> 7/12 for a large group of Middle Schoolers and they were definitely
> wowed by the Camera images.  We were also able to monitor a bit of audio
> on the FM downlink as the satellite rose on Blacksburg, but before it
> was kicked into Camera Mode.  I was able to show them the footprint with
> our tracking program and explained how we wouldn't start to see images
> until the footprint crossed into Florida in order for Drew to kick the
> bird into camera mode. Before the pass I had them guess what kinds of
> things we might see, and they were pretty excited when they saw their
> guesses were pretty close (clouds, coastlines, ocean, etc........one kid
> was disappointed that there were no aliens...:-) ).
>
> While we were able to get a good number of images direct in Blacksburg
> (including the shot of Cape Cod, Pic 86), it was very reassuring to know
> if I bungled the local station demo that I could jump to the website and
> show them images there collected from the community!  So many thanks to
> all out there for the backup.  And many thanks to Drew and the Ops Team
> for accommodating us with the Camera Mode request.  It felt really great
> showing kids visiting VT images from Space from a camera built at VT!
>
>
> Overall great success!.....Made possible in no small part thanks to the
> entire AMSAT community.  So on behalf of VT....THANK YOU !!!!!
>
>
>
> -Zach, KJ4QLP
>
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