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This page show the telemetry informations from the PCsat . That is important for to know the real status and life

of the satellite.

On this graphic screen It's clear that more because we can see all faces,address,experiments,sysop messages and

if the GPS is active.The green colour for battery It's better when is ligthen and the colours on the cube faces are too dark with not enough solar ligth and too brigth with good solar ligth.

The other two boxes are the top and side view of the satelite showing temperatures of all modules. The square with the X,Y is the top view, and the unlabeled "stack" is the -y view. The "U V" is supposed to show a "tight string" or a "broken string..." The UV (Ultraviolet) Passive-Release experiment was just a 1mm wide piece of polypropelene string with a spring under 2 Kg tension. We wanted to see how long it took for the SUn's UV to break the string. We have 10 identical samples in the sun in Arizona.. Problem is, when we opened the launch faring for the final battery charge, we noticed the string had already broken. But interestingly enought, none of the 10 samples in the sun in Arizona have broken yet, so we suspect someone bumped or touched the string during the 1 month that PCsat sat on the launch integration platform...

!!! *** News bulletin***  !!!

PCsat is still resetting randomly. Thus the satellite is often in a different mode than intended for users. To avoid any frustration to users and until we figure out what is going on, we are changing our recommended operating procedures so that NORMAL user mode and RESET mode are the same. THus, you will not have to change parameters if it happens to RESET prior to your pass. We are taking this step because PCsat appears to be safe, with a good power budget and not in any danger. So you are authorized to digipeat via the CALLSIGN of W3ADO-1 or W3ADO-2 in accordance with the recommended procedures posted on the satellite and web page. We will not be reloading it with the PCSAT-1 and -2 calls for now...

My TLM files (good for REPLAY)

Software released by Bob Bruninga WB4APR

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