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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Yesterday I received the first amateur email from space. PSAT2 is programmed to send me an Email via APRS about once a day reporting its health. This email was captured by VK6HAM ground station in Australia and forwarded to me:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Email from PSAT2: PSAT2 reporting Home [004960,0I801]{019</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">It did not happen automatically because it looks like we didn’t put enough spaces to pad out the callsign to the required 9 character callsign field. ARGH!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Is there anyone else out there who has EMAIL forwarding code that would be willing to look for these incorrect formatted Emails on the APRS-IS and automatically email them to me?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">This is an exciting capability to demonstrate for Ham radio and amateur satellites. I’d like to see it work.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Email me and I can give you the details.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Bob, WB4APR</span></p></div></body></html>