Special satellite operating event on ANDE
August 28th and 30th

The US Naval Academy Satellite Laboratory announced a special ANDE Operations Event for the Tuesday, August 28 and Thursday, August 30 morning passes over the US East Coast.

Bob, WB4APR described the operation plans,
" On Tuesday, Naval Academy students will operate ANDE to gather statistics on the success rate of the APRS mission."

We invite participation, attended or unattended and request these guidelines be followed:
1) Tracking Base stations transmit at 5 minute intervals
2) 50W mobiles transmit at 3 minute intervals
3) 5W HT's transmit at 1 minute intervals

Bob reminds amateurs, "Please do not transmit more often, as it will mess up the statistics. It would be helpful if you put your station info in your posit text so we could confirm the validity of the statistics of your transmit rate".
We recommend something like:
"Base=5min +10 dB"
"50W =3min w 5/8ths"
"HT=1min w 19" ant"

On Thursday, the Naval Academy may activate the packet to voice synthesizer.

ANDE operates on 145.825 MHz simplex and responds to packets that are addressed VIA APRSAT or VIA ARISS.

For more information please see http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/ande-ops.html

US Naval Academy Satellite Laboratory