I synced at 0.96 signal strength. Going to sleep now. Shutting down…
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We just had a 1.00 signal strength as it passed by us.
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And another great user-interaction exercise becomes redundant due to cheating. If one person can do it, everyone wants to do it and will. Sigh.
TQQdles™
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Actually, good point there. I think this would technically be cheating. I didn’t think of that.
For those who don’t have the time but still wanted to participate, it’s an option. I’m currently travelling so its going to be a bit difficult for me to participate so I resulted to bending things to work out for me.
But @Dolnor makes an excellent point. Try to do it the way A&S prefers us to do it. Thats the whole point of the fun! They work hard to make this for us, lets try to do it right.
Edit: I removed the alternate method and edited previous posts to not display how to do it. If you want to know how to do it, first try doing it the right way and if you can’t do it(which isn’t hard, you just need a little time and timing), then i’ll help you with the alternative method in a private message.
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I’ve synced at 0.8355606428 signal strength from Italy a few minutes ago and it let me upload the data, am I supposed to use the sync code or coordinates somewhere else?
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Not as far as we know. You should have received an email from @oldgods. In it, they say that once you have uploaded data, you will be contacted about what to do next. This could take up to a week.
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Thank you, the mail was filtered somehow sorry for my pointless question >.<
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Not pointless at all. The instructions for some of these tasks can be quite confusing.
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if i’m understanding correctly, the satellite has a period close to 96 minutes, this means 1 upload every 96 mins right?
As far as I can gather, they want you to get the strongest signal you can. Your best chance of doing this is to sync the device when the satellite is directly above your location. I don’t think you have to keep sending multiple data readings, but there’s nothing in the instructions saying you can’t.
I have sent a couple in the 0.91 - 0.98 range. I’m going to try for one above 1.00. If I manage that, I’ll stop.
It would be pretty unreasonable to expect people to keep on sending new data every 90 minutes for a week. I expect just one data submission is enough.
Yes it has a 96 min period but it won’t pass over the same point two times in a row.
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So it’s about the highest number each one can get rather than a sum of every upload made, it doesn’t bother me anyway to upload many result just in case, unless anyone knows it can be harmful .
We’ve had the same instructions as you. There’s nothing saying multiple uploads are harmful.
The way I read it, they want as many people as possible to send data. Not a small number of people to send many data entries. It’s about the number of people who participate, not how much data they receive.
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Just passed above Europe, could get a 0.915.
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It will be directly over my location in roughly 1 hour. I’ll try again then.
Out of a population of 1.379bn Chinese, there are 731 million users of the internet all tapping on a little red button on their phones, right now, giggling. I’m sure there’s a Chinese satellite hovering right now over Guildford monitoring the progress of NEXT 
And also watching Sean eating Sunday breakfast.
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I like how you have to click and hold the red dot on the Satcom App , same as how you start NMS, people had trouble with that lol
hold that E people
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I wish there was a progress meter on how much data we have uploaded like the calibration on project-wt last season.
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That seems to be a general feature of the ARG this time around. In the first phase, we were very much led, and told what to do. This time, it’s more a case of “Organise yourselves, and get on with it - come and tell us when you’ve finished”. There’s been far less hand-holding so far.
I think that may change when it goes into high gear for the final phase.
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I also wonder if perhaps, they are nudging people into the fold, you might say. Preparing us for multi-player. I see more people getting involved that have perhaps just been lurking. While some may wish to continue solo in NMS, I know I would like to experience multi-player even if only on occasion. That will be difficult for someone not involved in a community. Just a random thought. 
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