Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] NanoSail-D turns out isn't lost!

[Marcus D. Leech]

> Hi Alex /Marcus & All
>
> I have exactly the same result as Alexandur (not only once)
> I guess we used almost the same RCP antenna 
> http://www.poes-weather.com/~patrik/AO-51/
>
> Yesterday nite NanoSail passed FI at zenith, I could not hear anything 
> from it (once the signal jumped but staid only for < 2 sec so I'm not 
> sure what it was).
> I thought, my system is erroneous?  I cross checked against 
> ECHO(AO-51) today and it seems to work 
> http://www.poes-weather.com/~patrik/AO-51/Jan-22-2011/
> I retried on NanoSail this evning (68 deg max elev) using the new keps 
> published on the NASA page but nothing, nada.
>
> Sumthing is fundamentally wrong how I/we do it. I guess it could be LHCP?
> Perhaps someone (who speak English) could query NASA on howtos?
>
> Patrik
Once they unfurled the sail, the S-band transmitter turned on, which has 
been draining the batteries.  Transmissions have been only
  sporadic since then, I understand.




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Marcus Leech
Principal Investigator
Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
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