Now after spending some time in lunar orbit doing essentially nothing except watching the systems (aka flying a nine hour rest period) I think I found a flaw in the reacquire mode of the CSM high gain antenna: looks like it doesn't switch back to wide beam once the signal is lost. When I switch to wide beam manually it does acquire earth, but not when the switch is in narrow or medium. Interestingly, auto mode works just fine: it freezes the antenna when the earth sets and reacquires by itself when it rises again, it even switches from wide to narrow or medium beam automatically (you can see that in the typical 'nudge' on the AGC meter when the autotracking has just barely acquired earth and the antenna switches from wide to medium/narrow beam by itself). However, it doesn't do that in in reacq mode, so I think that the problem lies there.
Oh: and is it possible to increase the resolution of the pitch and yaw knobs a little? Manually pointing the HGA a lunar distances is quite annoying right now, even in wide beam.
Oh: and is it possible to increase the resolution of the pitch and yaw knobs a little? Manually pointing the HGA a lunar distances is quite annoying right now, even in wide beam.