[amsat-bb] Historical Data download for FOX-1A?

[Mark L. Hammond]

Hi Bill, it’s aka AO-85 so pretty sure the Keps can still be gotten. Old or
new.

73,
Mark N8MH

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 9:21 PM Bill Gaylord via AMSAT-BB <
amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:

> Thank you very much! Not at my computer at the moment but i will take a
> look in a bit.
>
> Btw is there a way for FoxTelem to be told what time it is to allow to
> process passes shortly after they occur? (I plan on trying to automate
> pulling data from SatNOGS for the still operating Foxes.)
>
>
>
> Also not totally related but any idea where i can look for old TLE for
> Fox-1A. I normally go to SpaceTrack to get thay sort of stuff but because
> Fox-1A doesnt exist there its not going to help much.
>
> KD9KCK
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2020, 7:37 PM Chris Thompson <g0kla at arrl.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi Bill,
> >
> > You can download all of the data for AO-85 from this link:
> > http://amsat.org/tlm/ao85/serverlogs.tar.gz  That contains the raw data
> > in CSV format.  For Fox-1A the conversions are defined in the back of the
> > manual for FoxTelem.
> >
> > As Jerry said, your best bet might be to use FoxTelem.  You can save the
> > data as a CSV file from any graph.  Even if it plots multiple channels.
> > That allows you to save converted data in human readable form and do
> > further analysis in another program.
> >
> > I'm more than happy to walk you through how to do this and help
> extracting
> > or converting the data.  Let me know how I can help.
> >
> > 73
> > Chris
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 8:26 PM Burns Fisher via AMSAT-BB <
> > amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> >
> >> What CSV files are you getting from FoxTelem.  As I recall they all
> have a
> >> first line that has the name of the field.   Or do you mean
> >> translation from downlinked units to standard units (like volts, ma,
> >> degrees, etc)?  I'm not sure there is a doc, but there probably should
> be.
> >> Let us know what you need to know.
> >>
> >> Burns WB1FJ
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 4:38 PM Bill Gaylord via AMSAT-BB <
> >> amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Is there a document on how the CSV files are formatted? (I can't seem
> to
> >> > find any information on what columns are what.)
> >> >
> >> > KD9KCK
> >> >
> >> > On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 2:07 AM Jerry Buxton via AMSAT-BB <
> >> > amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Bill,
> >> > >
> >> > > You can download all of the data for any particular satellite with
> >> > > FoxTelem, using the "fetch server data" menu item.
> >> > > I would suggest setting up/switching to a separate FoxTelem data
> >> > > directory for that so the info doesn't overwrite your own captured
> >> data
> >> > > and can be left alone to play with.
> >> > >
> >> > > Your analysis is of interest to engineering and many others I am
> sure,
> >> > > once you have studied the data and come to some conclusions or
> >> > > hypotheses you may want to consider presenting it in an AMSAT
> Journal
> >> > > article.
> >> > >
> >> > > Jerry Buxton, NØJY
> >> > >
> >> > > On 7/25/2020 22:22, Bill Gaylord via AMSAT-BB wrote:
> >> > > > Is it possible to get some sort of download for the Historical
> >> > Telemetry
> >> > > > downlinked by Fox-1A? It would be interesting to study its life in
> >> > space.
> >> > >
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> > g0kla at arrl.net
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Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]
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