Hi Walt,
I am not at all surprised there are oddballs. I expect what we are seeing is
carrier wave power from the satcom uplink - i.e. simply when the transmitter
is switched on - but not necessarily doing anything. The comms techs may well
mess around sometimes.
For instance in schedules 180 and 182 perhaps the pass was missed due to
technical problems but then somebody switched on the transmitter after the
pass ended to debug? Robert might have routine email messages sent around on
base saying "sorry no GOES this evening" etc - might be worth asking although
he may delete such stuff.
I seriously doubt the comms techs keep proper logbooks detailing such activity
- that would be military grade record keeping. But again might be worth
asking. Would presumably be paper on site if it existed at all.
Clem
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