Hi Bob,<br><br>Downlink is 437.345. Both Carl and I were able to digipeat through it last week, but not since. Either something's changed on the satellite, or we have so many folks trying to get through it that it only hears overlapping packets, which won't work either. Will try again tonight, if I can.<br>
<br>Greg KO6TH<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Bob Bruninga <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bruninga@usna.edu">bruninga@usna.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
I just realized that maybe the APRS sig was not made aware of the FAST1 satellite that has been turned over for APRS digipeating this weekend and onward (maybe). There is lots of emial chatter, but I just noticed it is on the AMSAT-BB and maybe APRSSIG people are not aware of it.<br>
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Uplink is on 145.825 and downlink is on 437???. My wife has guests coming in a few mintes, so I dont have time to look it up and post it. I believe the digipeating callsign is FAST1.<br>
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SO jump in! In fact, they are actually hoping that we can overload it and run the batteries down so that they can get a new reset for some other functions.<br>
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Bob, WB4APR<br>
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---- Original message ----<br>
>Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:56:08 -0800<br>
>From: <a href="mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org">amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org</a> (on behalf of "Greg D." <<a href="mailto:ko6th_greg@hotmail.com">ko6th_greg@hotmail.com</a>>)<br>
>Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: FAST1 Status?<br>
>To: <<a href="mailto:w8krf@w8krf.net">w8krf@w8krf.net</a>>,<<a href="mailto:amsat-bb@amsat.org">amsat-bb@amsat.org</a>><br>
><br>
><br>
>Hi Carl,<br>
><br>
>Well, same results here. Success early in the week, but nothing since. I wonder if our collective traffic has reset something up there?<br>
><br>
>However, on my last try (last night), I copied one beacon clearly - decoded and forwarded to IS - but I also heard a few other weak packets by ear that were not decoded. I could tell that they were not beacon packets (the long string of G's is very distinctive), so either I was hearing somebody uplinking on the downlink, or perhaps other satellite activity on 145.825.<br>
><br>
>There was also a portion of the pass where the FM noise would suddenly drop for a second and then return a few times. I suspect that was 9600 baud traffic from the satellite. I'm not set up to receive 9600 packet, but if that was the case, perhaps we'll have more success digipeating at 9600. Of course, that won't keep the transmitter as occupied - the packets are so much shorter - but it would indicate that the satellite is still in active digipeat mode.<br>
><br>
>Greg KO6TH<br>
><br>
><br>
>Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 07:31:54 -0500<br>
>From: <a href="mailto:w8krf@w8krf.net">w8krf@w8krf.net</a><br>
>To: <a href="mailto:amsat-bb@amsat.org">amsat-bb@amsat.org</a><br>
>Subject: [amsat-bb] FAST1 Status?<br>
><br>
>Has there been a change to FAST1 since Thursday? During two passes on<br>
>Thursday, I was able to digipeat through it using AGWPE (set to 1k2),<br>
>UISS, and SatPC. I have included a portion of my log below. Both<br>
>yesterday (12/10) and this morning (12/11) I was not able to digi<br>
>through it although I was receiving the beacon.<br>
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>----------------------------------------------------------------<br>
>[UISS Auto-Log date - Mode: Only Digipeated Packets - 12/8/2011]<br>
>----------------------------------------------------------------<br>
>{snip}<br>
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