Dear radio amateurs,
The LituanicaSAT-1 transponder is currently on and should remain so.
General rule to find out if the transponder is working at the moment is
following: if you can hear CW FM beacon on 437.275 MHz it means that
transponder is off, if you cannot hear it - transponder is on.
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Dear amateur radio operators,
Apparently the satellite had not reset as was scheduled on June 5, 0100z
and the transponder remained on for the rest of today. After today's pass
over Lithuania we left the transponder working again and put the satellite
to safe mode (no telemetry) to save some
From the LituanicaSAT-1 Facebook page:
Most probably spontaneous reboot was caused by
Watchdog timeout due to accidental radio interference on I2C bus.
Currently everything seems fine, batteries are charging. Next
transponder test in a couple of days, thank you for your support!
LituanicaSAT-1 Update May 14, 2014
http://amsat-uk.org/2014/05/14/lituanicasat-1-update-may-14-2014/
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