[amsat-bb] PSAT2 Status and Voice Ops (and reset)

[Scott]

>>> A packet with a digipeating path will not be spoken

Your updates are very helpful as we learn about the capabilities of this
new satellite - thanks Bob!

Regarding the text-to-voice, are you saying that we should not transmit
messages in that format to the normal 'ARISS' path?

If not, then what path should be used for text-to-voice messages?

Thanks!

-Scott,  K4KDR

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On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 4:03 PM Robert Bruninga via AMSAT-BB <
amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:

> PSAT2 digipeating and aprs-to-voice ops are working using the special
> APRS-to-voice packet format.
>
> But not both.  A packet with a digipeating path will not be spoken and a
> properly formatted text-to-voice message will not be digipeated.  This is
> a quirk of the TNC that for some reason does not pass a digipeated packet
> out its serial port to the Speech CPU.
>
> Also the 6 day watchdog timer is about to reset and will probably reboot
> the spacecraft's comm system overnight.  We are letting this fail-safe
> watchdog timer time out intentionally so we can verify it works.  Turns
> out, the Speech CPU is sleeping longer than we expected and so it turned
> into a 9 day timer!  We hope our command station in Brazil can restore it
> tomorrow.
>
> You can see the alphabetic watchdog timer count (y) as the first character
> in the APRS-to-voice bulletin:
>
> PSAT2>APDIGI,ARISS::BLNg-APRS:y|Q S T: This is the Aee PRS bullettin .
>
> It turned to (y) sometime between 1400 and 1700z today and after (z) it
> will reset (it is 8 hours per count)...
>
> If you wonder about the spelling of this bulletin, that is intentional,
> because it is intended that this bulletin be spoken.  We have found that
> creative spelling can get the sound you want instead of what the
> text-to-speech processor might come up with.  And remember,  for
> text-to-speech, use lower case, or it will spell-out letters if they are
> uppercase.  Hence "Aee PRS" is the correct pronunciation of APRS and not
> "Aprs" that some people use <wink> ;-)
>
> Bob, WB4APR
>