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- 1993 W1AW ARRL Keplerian Bulletins Description File
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- New ARRL Keplerian Bulletins are transmitted by W1AW twice weekly, on
- Saturdays and Tuesdays at 6:30p.m. Eastern time (immediately following the
- regularly scheduled RTTY bulletin). The transmissions are 3 mode RTTY,
- starting with Baudot, followed by Amtor, followed by ASCII (as time allows).
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- The Keplerian bulletins contain Amateur satellite orbital data in two-line
- NASA format, which can be decoded with the following key:
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- 1 AAAAAU 00 0 0 BBBBB.BBBBBBBB .CCCCCCCC 00000-0 00000-0 0 DDDZ
- 2 AAAAA EEE.EEEE FFF.FFFF GGGGGGG HHH.HHHH III.IIII JJ.JJJJJJJJKKKKKZ
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- KEY: A-CATALOGNUM B-EPOCHTIME C-DECAY D-ELSETNUM E-INCLINATION F-RAAN
- G-ECCENTRICITY H-ARGPERIGEE I-MNANOM J-MNMOTION K-ORBITNUM Z-CHECKSUM
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- Because of the similar subject matter in each bulletin, there are no
- individual bulletin descriptions available.
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- The staff of W1AW would like to thank NASA, AMSAT and N3FKV for supplying
- Keplerian data for W1AW bulletins.
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