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On 11 Oct, after a full 2 weeks of normal operations, PCSAT-1 returned to negative power budget with the default callsign of W3ADO-1. Bob, WB4APR of the US Naval Academy Satellite Lab said, "We have tried on several orbits to restore all parameters, but they are all lost during the next eclipse 30 minutes later."
Bob continues, "So it looks like we will not have reliable APRS digipeating until the next full sun period in the first week of January and then again in the middle of April. But then it should really be fun, because there will be 3 APRS satellites all in orbit at the same time on 145.825."
[ANS thanks Bob, WB4APR for the above information]