Ao 51

[NoCoFire]

Anyone having any luck on AO 51?

It appears that there is a problem with the computers crashing on board and it is only on over the US in the afternoon. Up and Dn freqs have changed as well.

I have not tried it since the change and I have not been monitoring (radio) it to see how things are going. The situation for this AO sounds grim...

More info here from May 27, 2011:

AMSAT - AO-51 Control Team News

"The IHU crashes each eclipse, erasing the software needed to operate the repeater automatically. At this time the command team is turning the repeater on and off during some US passes, mainly in the afternoon, and only as available. The repeater is open to all when this happens. The uplink is now 145.880, and the downlink is 435.150. We are working on trying to automate this."

Thanks -NoCoFire

 

[GROCKSHD]

I have tried working AO-51 a few times over the past few weekends, with no luck,

 

[JeremyB]

Anyone having any luck on AO 51?

It appears that there is a problem with the computers crashing on board and it is only on over the US in the afternoon. Up and Dn freqs have changed as well.

I have not tried it since the change and I have not been monitoring (radio) it to see how things are going. The situation for this AO sounds grim...

More info here from May 27, 2011:

AMSAT - AO-51 Control Team News

"The IHU crashes each eclipse, erasing the software needed to operate the repeater automatically. At this time the command team is turning the repeater on and off during some US passes, mainly in the afternoon, and only as available. The repeater is open to all when this happens. The uplink is now 145.880, and the downlink is 435.150. We are working on trying to automate this."

Thanks -NoCoFire

AO-51 isn't in great condition anymore, afternoons and weekends are the best times to try- more likely that a command station is around to turn it back on. There have been quite a few passes that it doesn't crash while going through its eclipse. When they turn it on or it survives the eclipse, it sounds good

 

[NoCoFire]

Thanks

GROCKSHD and JeremyB,

Thanks for the heads up. I will keep listening.

-NoCoFire