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

[Bill Gaylord]

I will look into that in a few minuetes and also take a look at the file
that Chris linked  (Finally got home, was up in Dowagiac,Michigan for the
weekend.)

KD9KCK

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020, 8:43 PM Mark L. Hammond <marklhammond at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Oh I forgot! How about way back machine and nasabare.txt from AMSAT?
>
> Mark N8MH
>
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 9:34 PM Bill Gaylord <chibill110 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I looked it up by Norad ID. From what i know its TLE are opennly
>> distrobuted by space tracked because it went up with some military stuff.
>> Same reason it was never on CelesTrack.
>>
>> KD9KCK
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 26, 2020, 8:24 PM Mark L. Hammond <marklhammond at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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