Hi All,<br><br>I've been toying around with the idea of building some equipment for extreme remote telemetry stuff to be done over satellite. (Similar to Bob's project in Mongolia). <br><br>Anyhow, one of the things that would be extremely useful is if the satellite could (occasionally) include its current orbital data in the beacon packet, something like a condensed version of the Two Line Element and a CRC. Using this information, it could then power down the radio until the next useful satellite pass. This would drastically reduce the power requirements for a remote site. Also, things like asatlogger and what not could use the information to update their pass predictions automatically.<br>
<br>Anyhow, just a thought. :)<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Hans Johnson<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>---------------------------------------------<br>Hans Johnson (<a href="mailto:hjohnson@sfu.ca">hjohnson@sfu.ca</a>)<br>B.ASc, Computer Engineering<br>
Simon Fraser University<br><br>... Si hoc legere scis numium eruditionis habes. -- Anonymous<br>