AO-51 will be remebered to me as I am sure some of those great old birds were
for the ones that have been around long enough... I hope that one day I will be
able to talk on something of that caliber from the stories I hear. Anyway I
always enjoyed every contact and sure miss stayin up all nig
If I may, in name of the Amateur Radio Satellite followers here in Puerto Rico,
say thanks for the team and their efforts for maintaining as long as possible
the operation of ECHO, nice little satellite which you know was on AOS by the
fading of the noise.
With it I could work from Brazil up t
Yes, so sad it is gone. I enjoy a lot during the few orbits I was able to
work. Thank you very much to AMSAT and the command team.
Regards,
Raydel, CM2ESP
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Este mensaje
It is with a heavy heart I report that AO-51 has ceased transmission and is not
responding to commands. The last telemetry data indicated that the third of six
batteries was approaching failure to short, and observations indicate the
voltage from three cells is insufficient to power the UHF tran
