On 9/28/13, Raydel Abreu Espinet (CM2ESP) <[email protected]> wrote: > Regarding Canada's Space Program, did you know that Canada's oldie satellite > > Allouette-2 is back to live???, or at least its transmitters.....
That's interesting because there was no mention of it in the news here. > > While I was monitoring the 136-138 satellite sub-band a couple of months ago > > with a RTL2832U based cheap SDR dongle I founded weird doppler shifted > signals not matching any known transmitting satellite. After reporting it on > > the HearSat mailing list and posterior confirmation from Mike Kenny in > Australia the best match was Canadian old satellite Allouete-2 launched in > 1965. > > It is amazing how solar panels, antennas and transmitters stages are > functioning after 48 years!!! It can be heard on: > 136.076 +- 2 KHz with high instability, strong. > 136.589 with unmodulated sub-carriers, weak. > 136.981 Continuos Wave. I'll have to see if I can hear it. > > All three transmitters are alive after many years. It seems that due to some > > unknown reason it started to transmit again. May be the very same UFO which > > un-plug the batteries from the AO-07 bus ran across that oldie historical > satellite and push the "ON" button HI HI HI HI HI!!! Maybe there's hope for some of our other silent OSCARS, such as AO-51. 73s Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL <snip> _______________________________________________ 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
