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ANDE Amateur Satellite Telemetry Summary since LaunchThis web page summarizes all the ANDE telemety trends since launch. http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/andeTemps.html Not only does this reveal neat things about ANDE, but more Look at the web page SOURCE and you will see that these data plots are simply CALLS to the global APRS data system at Steve Dimse's K4HG's FINDU.COM data base. This data base maintains every APRS packet in the world ever transmitted (I forget how far back it goes). But if you have any application that is transmitting APRS This means you can throw together a KPC-3+ TNC, a radio, a power source and some 0-5volt sensors, stick it anywhere in reach of the global APRS system, and without lifing a finger, you can monitor it (see above) from anywhere in the world and go back in time to see anything you want. Plug a GPS into it and you can watch it move on APRS too. This is why we made PCSAT1, PCSAT2, ANDE and RAFT as simply flying KPC TNC's with downlink to the APRS linked ground stations. The telemetry then is a done deal because the global infrastructure is already in place, the data base is in place, and the plotting stuff is all in place. As an example, this URL call to FINDU.COM will show the battery voltage of my KPC-3+ digipeater over the last 10 days! http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/tele2.cgi?call=WB4APR-1&last=240 To see the same plots from your KPC-3+ TNC, just put it on the APRS frequency, simply change the CALL to your KPC-3+ and/or change the "last=240" parameter to any time period you want, and you can see your own telemetry, anywhere, anytime. Of course your KPC-3+ TNC has to have been beaconing telemetry (see the TELEMETRY Beacon command). Anyway, I don't think everyone is aware how simple this stuff is. SO I just thought I would share it. Bob, WB4APR
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