[amsat-bb] ANS-254 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - AO-92 to Try Imaging Hurricane Florence September 13-14

[Jerry Buxton]

Hi Everyone,

I would like to remind you and to reiterate the description of how we
produce the AO-92 images seen on the Fox telemetry web pages.
http://www.amsat.org/tlm/leaderboard.php?id=0&db=FOXDB

In contrast to the images or partial images you may receive and see on
your FoxTelem display, the web page image is produced from the data
received by the server from the many stations who may be capturing the
pass with FoxTelem.  That literally means the more the merrier, and even
if you only see as little as one scan line on your FoxTelem image that
line will be sent to the server to be "stitched together" with all other
image data that others capture.  Your line may be the only capture of
that line and just what is needed to complete the whole image.  While
the single line or incomplete image on your display may seem
insignificant or be disappointing, you are contributing to the
opportunity to have the entire image available on the web.  That is
significant, and counting on several stations to receive the components
of a full image is part of the design of FoxTelem.

Of course to make this work in the end, you must have the Decoder
Options "Upload to Server" checked in your FoxTelem settings.  That
setting plus the participation of many stations, no matter how much or
how little data they might individually receive, is what can make full
images available for all to see on the website.

Thank you for participating in the science the Fox-1 satellites deliver,
and enjoy the birds!

Jerry Buxton, NØJY

On 9/11/2018 13:29, JoAnne Maenpaa wrote:
> SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-254.01
> ANS-254 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
>
> AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin 254.01
> >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.
> DATE September 11, 2018
> To All RADIO AMATEURS
> BID: $ANS-254.01
>
> AO-92 to Try Imaging Hurricane Florence September 13-14
>
> AMSAT Vice-President of Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA says that
> the camera on AO-92 is planned to be used to try to image Hurricane 
> Florence during North American east coast passes on Thursday, 
> September 13, and Friday, September 14.
>
> AO-92 will not be in its U/V FM voice transponder operation during
> these passes. Ground stations should standby and not attempt to access
> AO-92 during this time. Voice operation will be available later during
> these days.
>
> The high speed image data will be transmitted on the 145.880 MHz downlink.
>
> The image can be captured, decoded, and uploaded to the Fox-1 data
> warehouse using the FoxTelem v.1.06 software available from AMSAT:
> http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/windows
> http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/mac
> http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/linux
>
> [ANS thanks AMSAT Vice-President of Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA for
> the above information]
>
> /EX