[amsat-bb] I havn't gotten a ROUND TUIT yet.

[John Hackett]

Hi Thomas,
                 Thank you. I've got it all sorted out now. In fact, I suspect that which Amsat-UK have on the video as X-3 may well have been an Orbcomm satellite on 137.560Mhz ... but I may be wrong ... I havn't gotten around to checking the TLM yet.

I have the Orbcomm software so it should be easy to compare.
I put the X-3 keps into NOVA and InstantTRACK so it will be relatively easy to check - when I have time.

Thanks again for the X-3 keps.

73 John.   <la2qaa at amsat.org>

To: eu-amsat at yahoogroups.com
From: th.frey at vtxmail.ch
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 11:05:59 +0100
Subject: Re: [eu-amsat] A lot! of felines ... or ... Cat: Nr: 05580
















  


    
            John Hackett schrieb:

> Hello Folks,

>                  Does anyone know where I might obtain keps for object 

> nr: 1973 583A, catalogue nr: 05580 ??.

Hello John



Here is your set:



1 05580U 71093A   08035.91733844  .00000129  00000-0  24102-4 0  7288

2 05580 082.0434 342.4015 0548957 143.7064 220.2679 13.89539227815329



But the object nr. doesn't match !



>

> My first shot was Celestrak but the page refused to accept the 

> previous password it used to.

>

> (There is no facility for 'remembering' an old password).

>

> It's simply too much faffing around creating a new identity.

>

> Any suggestions and I'd be most grateful.

At Celestrak you don't need a password.



>

> This is the first 100% British satellite launched 35 years ago. 

> There's a video on the Amsat-UK website showing that it's still 

> transmitting.

>

> It was also known as Prospero X-3.

>

> USELESS INFORMATION DEPT:

>

> Prospero? ... Aye!, the Duke of Milan in William Shakespeare's ... '

> The Tempest' ... read the play and you'll understand why the satellite 

> was christened thus.

>

> 73 John.   <la2qaa at amsat.org>

>

>

>     ----------------------------------------------------------

>     From: archie.hackett at hotmai l.com

>     To: g7hia at btinternet.com

>     CC: john at manchester.ac.uk; allan_gm1sxx at hotmail.com

>     Subject: Cat: Nr: 05580

>     Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 01:28:29 +0100

>

>     Hello John,

>                     Re: the Prospero X-3 satellite.

>

>     It's object nr: 1973 583A, catalogue nr: 05580.

>

>     I've listened to the Amsat-UK website audio recording and noted

>     the frequency as 137.560 WFM ... but I can't find any keps anywhere!.

>

>     Any ideas where I might find current keps ??.

>

>     I tried the CelestTRACK website but it refuses to accept my

>     password since I last checked in a year ago.

>

>     The Wikipedia page noters that it was decomissioned long ago but

>     that it's still transmitting ... with an estimated life of 100 years.

>

>     Interesting power situation there ... nuclear based ??.

>

>     If I could find the keps I could have a listen. Any other 'secret'

>     info ??.

>

>     73 John 2     <la2qaa at amsat.org>

>

>  



Mit freundlichen Grüssen, Regards, 73

    Thomas Frey, HB9SKA

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Thomas Frey, Holzgasse 2, CH-5242 Birr, Tel. + Fax: 056 444 93 41

                   http://home.datacomm.ch/th.frey/




      

    
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