[amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 now shutting off tx soon after eclipse

2011-11-26 Thread Richard Grabotin
Mark, Thank you for the reply. I didn't expect to hear right from the lions mouth! My only hope is that future birds do not have a downlink of 436.795. I always wanted to use satellites ever since I became a ham at 14. I thought it was a very expensive aspect of the hobby. Recently I sold be

[amsat-bb] Re: AO-51 now shutting off tx soon after eclipse

2011-11-23 Thread Mark L. Hammond
Hi Richard, Good thoughts, but the difference between needs to be and can it be is the tough part. Actually, 4 of the cells are good, 2 are bad. One of the four good ones seems a bit weaker than the other three. We cannot do any scheduling because of the great difficulty in getting all the