John,
Alan Kung, BA1DU and CEO of CAMSAT was one of the speakers at the Dayton AMSAT
Forum. He reported that HO-68 is suffering from a bad relay or relay driver
that is used to switch from the beacon to the transponder. The likelihood of
recovery is low, but not zero.
Here is the explanation from Alan's slide. These are exact quotes, not my
interpretation:
-- The current situation is the transponders will be difficult to switch the RF
PA from beacon mode to transponder mode
-- The RF relay or its drive circuit is failing, it is a stick relay.
Probability of success of switch is probably a few tenth
-- On the other hand, up to now the both solar and lithium-ion batteries are in
very nice condition
-- The exhibitions of the thermal-control, onboard flight computer and TT&C are
also excellent.
73, Steve N9IP
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of John Mac
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 5:06 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [amsat-bb] HO-68
Hi all...
I am wondering with the lack of Operational Satellites up at the
moment.....what is actually wrong with HO-68...
All I could find out is that it had a scheduling problem, so what does this
mean...its hardware or software...?
With the limited life of these birds I would think they would implement
something to at least get part of it working...if at all possible.
John
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