On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Marcus D. Leech <mle...@ripnet.com> wrote: >> Hi Alex /Marcus & All >> >> I have exactly the same result as Alexandur (not only once) >> I guess we used almost the same RCP antenna >> http://www.poes-weather.com/~patrik/AO-51/ >> >> Yesterday nite NanoSail passed FI at zenith, I could not hear anything >> from it (once the signal jumped but staid only for < 2 sec so I'm not sure >> what it was). >> I thought, my system is erroneous? I cross checked against ECHO(AO-51) >> today and it seems to work >> http://www.poes-weather.com/~patrik/AO-51/Jan-22-2011/ >> I retried on NanoSail this evning (68 deg max elev) using the new keps >> published on the NASA page but nothing, nada. >> >> Sumthing is fundamentally wrong how I/we do it. I guess it could be LHCP? >> Perhaps someone (who speak English) could query NASA on howtos? >> >> Patrik >> >> > Once they unfurled the sail, the S-band transmitter turned on, which has > been draining the batteries. Transmissions have been only > sporadic since then, I understand.
The radio fun might be over but there are still opportunities for visual sightings (switch to THz frequency ;-) The AL-coated solar sail is 6x larger than the reflective area of an Iridium satellite so it may produce some nice flashes under the right circumstances. Alex _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
