PCSAT2 is on the air for its 200 hour pre-flight burn in test. Now scheduled for flight on ISS in September, it should be a fun payload.
We have it transmitting 4 bulletins and a telemetry packet every 10 seconds on both 1200 and 9600 baud on both downlinks, trying to at least keep the transmitters at a 50% duty cycle without smoking them.

One of those packets every 30 minutes is being routed to the national APRS frequency of 144.39 where it is being picked up by the woldwide APRS system and picked up from there onto the pcsat.aprs.org web page. We want to see if it runs all weekend without an anomoly. It is using the callsign of W3ADO-2.

One mode for PCSAT2 is a full duplex FM voice repeater for experiments with ISS (usually just to help with crew communications full duplex so we can hear the schools). Here is a thought... when not being used for that purpose....

We could let "schools" sign up for each pass. THey then get to be voice "net control" and they operate the FM transmponder as a directed net.
Such a plan might cut down on the frustration level and improve the usefulness of such FM transponders. At least it would be something different form the free-for-alls we have sometimes now...

Just thinking...

de WB4APR@amsat.org, Bob

PCsat2 WEB page http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/pcsat2.html