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March 11, 2022, 7:12pm
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Regarding Observation 5602744 , it appears that Chomptt has resumed transmitting its telemetry beacon, any idea what was wrong and how it was fixed…
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That great news! Here’s a related thread but the short of it is the beacon shutoff due to an issue with their UHF ground.
Recent CHOMPTT observations with ‘decoded frames’ are showing no RF signal with random data. I looked back through the last few months of CHOMPTT observation, it seems the last verified frames from CHOMPTT ceased around Nov 6th 2021.
https://network.satnogs.org/observations/4963727/
Nothing valid since then, at least as far as I could see.
I’ve reached out to the CHOMPTT team for verification of status but it appears (to me) the beacon has been offline for several months. Usually a bad sign…
Scott