[amsat-bb] AO-85 status?

[Hans BX2ABT]

North to East pass today with 16 degrees elevation and signals were much 
stronger than yesterday: +20 dB. Still in safe mode, so only got 5 DUV 
frames decoded.

--Hans

BX2ABT


On 02/04/2019 10:14 PM, Jean Marc Momple wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I made a QSO (to myself as no-one to reply anyway) very clear voice back and strong signal. 16 DUV frames decoded and upload successfully to the Leaderboard this afternoon.
>
> As no traffic on it in the middle of the Indian Ocean and in full sunlight, I can only guess that it automatically switch mode depending of its status, I did not trigger it much per recommendation as not to deplete the battery.
>
> 73
>
> Jean Marc (3B8DU)
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>> On Feb 4, 2019, at 5:40 PM, Hans BX2ABT <hans.bx2abt at msa.hinet.net> wrote:
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>> Must be since today, because Sunday UTC I had two passes with lots of activity. Unfortunately I still find that signal strength is below what it used to be before the trouble with this bird started. The best pass had signal strengths of +15 dB above noise level and only 3 DUV frames were decoded during the whole pass. And that with my new 6 element cross yagi for 2 meters (used to have a horizontal 4 element yagi with LNA).
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>> Hans
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>> BX2ABT
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>> On 02/04/2019 08:24 PM, Roy Dean wrote:
>>>> Just what is "Safe Mode"? Is it OK to make a call when the bird is in
>>>> safe mode?
>>> Safe mode is the beacon/TLM only, every couple of minutes.  No point in
>>> attempting QSO's, as the transponder will not be on.
>>>
>>> The spacecraft can be placed in Safe Mode by a control operator, or it can
>>> switch in automatically depending on the status of onboard systems.
>>>
>>> If you hear "Hi, this is Amateur Radio Satellite Fox-1" (or something like
>>> that), then the transponder is on.   If you hear "safe mode", then
>>> obviously the transponder will not be on.
>>>
>>> --Roy
>>> K3RLD
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