[amsat-bb] IO-86 added to APRS satellite page

[Robert Bruninga]

Since I also added a telemetry counter, it looks like (IO-86) Resets the
telemetry counter about every 20 minuites or so and then has big gaps up to
12 hours or so.  Since an equatorial orbit should have maybe a 65 minutes in
the sun and 35 minutes in eclipse, does this mean it takes almost 40 minutes
in the sun on each orbit to have enough power to transmit, and then only
lasts until the next eclipse?

Or is there a better explasnation?

Bob, Wb4APR

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Bruninga <bruninga at usna.edu>
Sent: Sunday, September 8, 2019 5:26 PM
To: AMSAT-BB <AMSAT-BB at amsat.org>
Cc: Hans BX2ABT <hans.bx2abt at msa.hinet.net>; Robert Bruninga
<bruninga at usna.edu>
Subject: IO-86 added to APRS satellite page

I just added IO-86 to my APRS Satellite page:  http://aprs.org/sats.html Its
telemetry is in standard APRS format and users should also show up on the
user link page on FINDU.
With a 5W output this should be the strongest APRS satellite on 145.825 MHz.
Did I get all the links right?

But you have to be below 30 deg latitude to ever be in the footprint.  But
if you were on the equatior you would get 14 passes a day every 110 minutes
all day long!!

Are there any other APRS digipeating satellites that I have overlooked?

It looks like a standard APRS digipeater, but I don’t see the usual generic
ARISS or APRSAT digipeat aliases... So I guess this means you have to user
the YB0X-1 callsign to digipeat?

Bob, Wb4APR