Hello all I had a nice western pass of FORTE, 16 August 13 starting at 22:54z here in San Jose, California. Indeed, there is no modulation anymore. Here is my Doppler plot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wkxddml712q9x4f/forte.jpg
73, Pete WA6WOA ________________________________ From: Jean-Pierre Godet <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 1:30 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: [Sort of Off Topic] Non-Ham Satellites of Interest Hello Bryce and everyone here, Try "satellite frequency uhf" with your favorite search engine. There is a lot of websites wich offer frequency lists, sometimes outdated. Many are around 250 / 280 MHz, something like that. First try a very easy, strong one, FORTE, on 401.568 MHz (+- 10 kHz of Doppler shift) with the tle : 1 24920U 97047A 13226.13396630 .00000147 00000-0 85928-4 0 9728 2 24920 069.9555 142.7308 0022573 185.2601 174.8286 14.25669016830080 It sounds like the FSK modulation 4800 bps of the european radiosondes, and as the frequecy is inside the 401 - 406 MHz radiosounding band this often fooled the radioamateurs. These last times there is no modulation, only a carrier, and FORTE looks like in a stdby mode. I listened the modulated carrier on may 16th, but at the beginning of june till now only an unmodulated carrier. Try this one first. ;-) 73 ! J-P/F5YG -- Powered by Linux (Slackware 10.0 - kernel 2.4.26) On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, Bryce Salmi wrote: > This is more of a curious question to anyone with some knowledge of non-ham > satellites (I know about the NOAA satellites though). Are there any > satellites that would be worth tracking at taking a listen to with an Arrow > handheld antenna and a Yeasu VX-8R (HT with AM/FM modes). This is simply my > curiosity of what's up there. > > > Bryce > KB1LQC > _______________________________________________ > Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
