Comments on: Satellite for radio amateurs http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7808 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:56:26 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7808/comment-page-1#comment-33631 Reader's Write Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:44:42 +0000 #comment-33631 Had to check the date after reading this.....nup, ain't April 1st! Had to check the date after reading this…..nup, ain’t April 1st!

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7808/comment-page-1#comment-33606 Reader's Write Mon, 06 Feb 2006 09:32:34 +0000 #comment-33606 (from amsat.org) SuitSat Status 4 February Paraphrasing Mark Twain....the demise of SuitSat-1 is highly exaggerated!! It is now nearly 24 hours since the successful deployment of the SuitSat-1 experiment. These past 24 hours have been a wild ride of emotions...tremendous highs...deep lows when people reported no signals and said SuitSat-1 was dead and now....some optimism. It is absolutely clear that SuitSat-1 is alive. It was successfully turned on by the ISS crew prior to deploy and the timing, micro-controller functions and audio appear to be operating nominally. The prime issue appears to be an extremely weak signal. *** I guess Bernie S. had it wrong, I tried picking up the signal on Wednesay which was supposed to be the last day to hear it and got nothing. Track it here: http://science.nasa.gov/realtime/jtrack/Spacecraft.html http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/echo/ControlTeam.php (from amsat.org)
SuitSat Status 4 February

Paraphrasing Mark Twain….the demise of SuitSat-1 is highly exaggerated!!

It is now nearly 24 hours since the successful deployment of the SuitSat-1 experiment. These past 24 hours have been a wild ride of emotions…tremendous highs…deep lows when people reported no signals and said SuitSat-1 was dead and now….some optimism.

It is absolutely clear that SuitSat-1 is alive. It was successfully turned on by the ISS crew prior to deploy and the timing, micro-controller functions and audio appear to be operating nominally. The prime issue appears to be an extremely weak signal.

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I guess Bernie S. had it wrong, I tried picking up the signal on Wednesay which was supposed to be the last day to hear it and got nothing.

Track it here:
http://science.nasa.gov/realtime/jtrack/Spacecraft.html

http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/echo/ControlTeam.php

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