Daily Archives: 12/23/2007

You can hear Genesat telemetry too…

Okay, I was bored waiting for potential Ande passes, so I tuned into Genesat. I got a few telemetry packets, although the frequency seemed to be 5khz low from the published frequency of 437.075Mhz.

KE7EGC>UNDEF,TELEM:GeneSat1.orgB4511B0A00000000000000260069009F7113722166CC790B02F0
KE7EGC>UNDEF,TELEM:GeneSat1.orgFA511B06000000000001002600690001EA02BA27081CBF026621
KE7EGC>UNDEF,TELEM:GeneSat1.org04521B8A010E018901DD010100A4015F2DCB1C226D951D1C023A
KE7EGC>UNDEF,TELEM:GeneSat1.org36521B73010F017101DE010000A4019F992216023D996D22E207
KE7EGC>UNDEF,TELEM:GeneSat1.org3B521B72010F016E01DE010000A4015F2DCB1C226D951D1C023A
KE7EGC>UNDEF,TELEM:GeneSat1.org40521B0100000001000100250069005F2299221C02202274231C
KE7EGC>UNDEF,TELEM:GeneSat1.org45521B0200000002000000260069009F07BC13A0230013281C02

Not sure what any of it means, but there it goes.

Ande Still Lives at 21:53Z

Around 21:53Z, I got two packets for the NO-61, otherwise known as ANDE

ANDE-1>BEACON:T#002,002,010,009,004,003,01000000,000
ANDE-1>APRS2,SGATE::BLN2ANDE :ANDE stays  awake for 30 secs after last pkt heard.

Ande is due to deorbit very soon, probably within the next 24 hours, maybe even sooner. My orbital elements indicated its altitude was only about 107 miles, and it’s dropping fast. I won’t likely get another good chance to here it. Merry Christmas Ande, and thanks from all the radio amateurs whom you have helped entertain and educate.

Addendum: The software I use for satellite predictions no longer predicts any passes for Ande. Sayonara.

NO-61 has decayed, at least according to “predict”
Addendum2: Predict is no longer guessing where ANDE is: it merely marks the position as “decayed”.

SO-50 pass this morning…

During the SO-50 pass this morning, WA8SME was asking if I was using a preamp, and whether I had any difficulty with receive sensitivity. On the Amsat mailing list, I’m amazed by reports of people who get weak signal strength using 14 element antennsas and the like, my handheld Arrow antenna, while not perfect, is remarkably good, and I normally hear just about everything on the satellite.

Here’s a link to the mp3 as recorded on my Sony voice recorder:

SO-50 pass, with QSOs from WA8SME, N6KTH and W6HF (with a brief appearance from AB9LA)