Hello Ryan, The problem with AO-16 is that when we turn it on, it goes OFF almost immediately. It won't stay up long enough to be useful. The reason remains the same--it's temperature related. The orbit doesn't appear to change enough to warm up the internal temperature of spacecraft for over 10 years...
I did turn it ON just a few weeks ago. It stayed up for about 10-15 secs. It is possible that the hardware issue (a transistor is the best guess) causing the problem will change--but that is not very probable. We will keep checking and hoping, but don't expect it to become operational for a long time... 73! Mark N8MH At 10:20 PM 1/17/2011 -0800, ryan woods wrote: >What is the status of ao-16 are we still playing it by ear (its on when ever a >command station turns it on) >Thanks for the help and 73 >Kd8atf > >Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android > > > >_______________________________________________ >Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. >Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
