Hello Frank, Welcome to the exciting world of Amateur Satellites, this BB is an excellent source for exchanging satellite ideas, setting up schedules for satellite contacts and making friends! AO-27 is currently not operational, the team is having problems with it's bootloader program, it keeps crashing, you can visit, http://www.ao27.org/AO27/, to see any progress with the satellite, you can also view all activity with satellites, http://oscar.dcarr.org/, with this site, have fun.
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