[amsat-bb] Husky-1 Xmit Power

[Jerry Buxton]

Zach,

What I said was not personal, it was an explanation and extension of
your question as to hearing 24 GHz.  I used your email as a reply to
subject to mention several things in general that I thought might not be
fully known since it is our first LTM and we're pretty used to talking
whole satellites here. 

All UW experiments must only be active over their ground station while
operating Part 5, and we have a timer built into the code in order to
switch out of Science Mode at or very near their LOS.  This is a scheme
that we started with Fox-1D, in which University of Iowa could command
their science mode/dump on and it would time out around their LOS. 
Unfortunately, their experiment had a partial failure and the use of
that feature never came to be.

I apologize for making it sound or seem personal.  I climbed on your
shoulders in order to shout general info at a crowd.  I will be more
cognizant of the appearance of any responses I write, especially in
public forums.

Jerry Buxton, NØJY

On 2/29/2020 19:06, Zach Metzinger via AMSAT-BB wrote:
> So nobody has heard it emit 24 GHz. Got it. That's all I was asking.
>
> I wasn't asking either UW or AMSAT for privileged information, nor do
> I expect any. My interest was purely technical curiosity, as one would
> expect from a member of our hobby.
>
> Much like any other (non-intelligence-organization) object in orbit,
> we are not prohibited from listening to any RF emitted by the
> satellite, even if we don't understand the content.