Some of you may have heard that a team in the UK are trying to
re-contact and old British launched satellite for the anniversary of its
launch (28th October 1971).
We've been given a licence to transmit and will be testing our
re-engineered ground-segment in the next fortnight. The passes we are
going to concentrate on will be as far out west as possible, as to
minimise QRM from Europe. Earth is a lot more EM noisy than it was in 1971.
If anyone in the UK wants to try and tune in to the downlink, you can
help ID any response we get from the old bird. The passes are
summarised here:
https://public.sheet.zoho.com/public/rjaduthie/prospero-passes-in-the-next-fortnight
There are other passes, though these are the ones which are out west.
We'll see how we do.
-Roger
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Roger J A Duthie
m0rja
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