[amsat-bb] Fox Operating Guide - Charlotte Hamfest

[JoAnne K9JKM]

Good afternoon Phillip,

I'm the author and maintainer of the Fox Operating Guide. This is usually
updated in time for the Hamvention so not much had been done for this year
as of yet.

I changed the AO-85 status to include, "Intermittent operation as battery
condition allows".
And, AO-95 status says, "Beacon active only at this time."

The high and low resolution PDF files are available on their links at:
https://www.amsat.org/station-and-operating-hints/

The Operating Guide is getting to be a bit dated but that's what there is at
this time. 

Sometime there may an updated guide - Fox-1E is coming but we're not listing
that with these FM satellites anyways. It is time to update the publishing
software too ... these Fox Guides are made with the old software (Adobe
InDesign) that made the AMSAT Journal back around 2012 or so. Maybe move to
an open source publisher.

Hope you have a good time at the Hamfest!

--
73 de JoAnne K9JKM
k9jkm at amsat.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Philip
> Jenkins
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2019 12:51 PM
> To: AMSAT BB
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Fox Operating Guide - Charlotte Hamfest
> 
> I plan to be at the Charlotte NC Hamfest this Friday and Saturday, and
> while I won't be doing a full-blown AMSAT info table, I've decided to have
> a few AMSAT/satellite related things at my flea market table at the last
> minute. (I most likely won't be doing demos since I'll be there by
myself.)
> 
> One item that I'm planning to print is the Fox Operating Guide, and
looking
> at the AMSAT website just now, the 2018 version doesn't reflect the
current
> status of AO-85 nor Fox-1Cliff (AO-95).
> 
> Should I just draw a line through the info (without obliterating the info
> entirely) for those two birds on the second page of the sheet, and only
> fill in the details when someone asks why they are marked out? I don't
want
> them to try to listen for signals which aren't there! :-)
> 
> And, how should I classify the status of AO-85 if someone asks -
> "Currently unavailable?" "Currently out of commission?" I'm just looking
> for the best (and briefest?)  way to express its status.
> 
> Philip N4HF
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