[amsat-bb] AO-7 Mode A on the AMSAT status page

[Paul Stoetzer]

That is the expected behavior of the status page, otherwise it would
quickly clog with satellites no one is listening for.

I used Flyby to run the prediction that appeared in ANS. Flyby is a modern
and more fully-featured fork of PREDICT for Linux that I find very useful.
I’m looking forward to seeing when that timer triggers the mode change and
maybe making a few Mode A QSOs during this period.

Flyby can be found at https://github.com/la1k/flyby. It can be installed on
Arch Linux and derivatives using the flyby-git package in the Arch User
Repository. Users of other distributions will have to build it manually.

73,

Paul, N8HM

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 05:43 Alan via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:

> Tom,
>
> According to ILLUM, the last eclipse was 1 minute on 10 Oct, and the next
> eclipse will be 1 minute on 1 December.  PREDICT presents things slightly
> differently, and gives the period of full illumination as 9 Oct to 2
> December.
>
> Apparently a status line times out if there is no data for a period of
> time,
> but not the dropdown box.  Just for fun, I put in a Not Heard report, and
> the Mode A status line is back. Who knew?
>
> 73,
>
> Alan
> WA4SCA
>
>
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> <Schuessler, N5HYP via AMSAT-BB
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> <Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-7 Mode A on the AMSAT status page
> <
> <As I understand, AO-7 will begin doing 24 hour mode switches about now.
> So
> <I went to the status page on AMSAT.org and see that the Mode A listing is
> no
> <longer there.  Since it was in a long period of eclipse shutdowns,
> probably
> <got dropped inadvertantly.  Also looking forward to learning when the
> switch
> <time is nailed down.
> <
> <Tom Schuessler, N5HYP
> <EM12ms
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