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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">APRS Satellite operators:</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">We are delivering our next APRS satellite (QIKcom-1) next week and it will have a mission life of maybe 6 months.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">It is a very quick reaction short fuse opportunity so we are simply going to fly an APRS digipeater (TinyTrack4) supporting the three digipeater aliases of ARISS, APRSAT and WIDEn-N but it will operate at 4 Watts RF power and be easily heard on any HT..</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">It has no other CPU on board and so it flies with only the fixed settings set before launch.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">But we do have an A/B switch which can be used to switch between two bank settings.</p><p class="MsoNormal">I just cannot think of any neat must-do ideas for how to use the other bank settings.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The host spacecraft has plenty of power, so there is no need for low power options… (they can simply turn us off if needed). Telemetry is a boring Volts, current, and two internal temps. The settings in bank 0 are now: </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">DIGIPEATER: ON</p><p class="MsoNormal">ALIASES: ARISS, APRSAT, WIDEn-N</p><p class="MsoNormal">BTEXT: USNA-W3ADO APRS Satellite every 2 minutes</p><p class="MsoNormal">TELEMETRY: every 1 minute.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I just cannot think of any use for a separate bank settings?</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">If you have ideas of how to use the A/B settings let me know.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Bob, WB4aPR</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>