Shufei 🧸 @Shufei@mastodon.sdf.org
Far out! The code key for AO7’s telemetry. So now if he flies overhead, just find hims beacon on 29.5/145.98 MHz, then decode the rtty. Then we can see if he is happy in various systems by comparing the channels in the telemetry to the chart. “Hi hi!”
AO7 is a very good ancient satellite! He works so hard. There should be a way to report telemetry and graph it like for Fox sats.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070819030924/http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/software/spreadsheet/AO7tlmSS.xls
https://web.archive.org/web/20070819030924/https://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/softwareArchive.php
This AO-7 season, I intend to record hims telemetry song and hopefully talk to him on both mode a and b. Goals.
AO7 just sends out telemetry as RTTY (baudot code), so that is simple. Still can’t find a secret decoder ring for the 24 channels, though. Some are pretty obviously current values.
AO-7 here shows off to prove that satellite cleanroom manufacturing is for *wimps.*
Oscar 7 has been flying around bouncing #hamradio transmissions in 5 ways since 1974, the same year as poor old Skylab went kablooie.
Bunnysuits? We don’t need no stinking bunnysuits.
Amazing...
AO-7 is also a real cutie pie of a satellite. I’ve been a fan for years, but never talked to hims or even heard his telemetry. (Probably hims oldschool solar panels were too shaded those days.)
Who couldn’t be happy to have a chance to chat with this miracle robot? He has done so well for so long for us. We are ever so proud of you, Oscar7! 💖
Chelsea Manning’s answer to NPR asking about her feelings regarding Adrain Lamo, who turned her in. The scrawled note says a lot about her and the situation - both in the plain maturity of content and perhaps in the cramped, uncomfortable edges to the characters...
Here is what a nice test page which @Cat made for #GopherColour looks like in a browser which doesn’t support ANSI colour escape codes. This is the new client for iOS.
If you go to Gopher://baud.baby/1/test with @solderpunk ‘s lovely #VF1 client, this renders in nice BBS style colour.
https://github.com/solderpunk/VF-1
So going forward, it probably is good form to make #Gopher maps select for regular or colour. I shall try! https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/D4rLeijfghFBJWcmbw0
