[amsat-bb] Looking for info on AO-6

[Paul Stoetzer]

Unfortunately, OSCAR 6 had a problem that required it to be constantly
commanded to stay on, so even if a battery cell were to open, it wouldn’t
stay on like OSCAR 7 has.

Phil Karn, KA9Q, has archived many of the early AMSAT Newsletters. The
issues from 1972 on contain lots of information about OSCAR 6.

http://www.ka9q.net/newsletters.html

73,

Paul, N8HM

On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 00:30 Bill Gaylord via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
wrote:

> Very cool stuff on that SmugMug. Love the internal pictures of modules on
> AO-7.
> And yes the battery packs look very similar.
>
>  I might try and take advantage of its beacon being near another sats
> downlink to try and hear it on the SatNOGS network to do some checking in
> on it now and then.  As its beacon falls near falconsat-3 70cm downlink at
> 435.103 Mhz.  So if they happen to be over the same station at one time I
> can possibly catch AO-6 if it ever repeats AO-7.
>
> WIlliam KD9KCK
>
>
> KD9KCK
>
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 11:00 PM Nicholas Mahr KE8AKW via AMSAT-BB <
> amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>
> >  Hi Bill,
> > If you look on N4HY's SmugMug https://n4hy.smugmug.com/AMSAT it shows
> > pictures of both AO-7 and AO-6 in construction. I can say from studying
> the
> > pictures of both AO-6's and AO-7's battery packs from that page, that
> they
> > both look identical in construction as far as i can tell from the
> picture.
> > Also a quick google search turned up these frequencies:  *Uplink* (MHz):
> > 145.900-146.000  *Downlink* (MHz): 29.450- 29.550 *Beacon* (MHz):
> 435.100.
> > Yes it would very cool if OSCAR 6 came back to life like its brother
> AO-7.
> > Although having a repeat of AO-7 would be rare, its possible!
> >
> > Nick KE8AKW
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