[amsat-bb] FCAL still alive

[Armando Mercado]

Greetings,
Just copied ANDE FCAL (cat. #29667) on 437.385 during the
1140 UTC pass over EN62.
Space-Track has predicted re-entry of May 2.  It is amazing
how low this "cannon ball" is.  This last pass was a near
over head pass and the range was 162 miles at closest approach.
Height is 138 miles.  Even so, reception is difficult.  There seems
to be many deep nulls in the antenna pattern of this bird.

Some packets from yesterday and today.  All time UTC:

03-May-08  10:28:31 
KD4HBO>TELEM,TELEM:02932EB80014F88FFFEFEC8002CFC00001FFE88FFFEFD30FFFFFCA8
03-May-08  10:28:38  KD4HBO>TELEM,TELEM:Analog 
0008000000F400DB00A4000900DE0004 N 0000001E
03-May-08  10:29:16 
KD4HBO>TELEM,TELEM:02932EE5005FEC0000FEC00190FC78001EFED8FFFEFD300000FC50
03-May-08  10:29:23  KD4HBO>TELEM,TELEM:Analog 
000400FC00F400DD00A900FA00DE0004 N 0000001E

04-May-08  10:11:15 
KD4HBO>TELEM,TELEM:02947D0E003FB98FFFFFDF80099FEA8FFFFFD280003FF80FFFEFD58
04-May-08  10:12:44 
KD4HBO>TELEM,TELEM:02947D80E5FC980004FDB8000BFF680010FD20FFFEFF300000FD10
04-May-08  10:12:52  KD4HBO>TELEM,TELEM:Analog 
0012000000EC00DC00AD00FB00DD0011 N 0000001E
04-May-08  10:13:29 
KD4HBO>TELEM,TELEM:02947D9501F1FD8000EFDB80002FF78001EFD38FFFEFED00003FCF0
04-May-08  10:13:37  KD4HBO>TELEM,TELEM:Analog 
001100F500ED00DC00AC00FB00DE0008 N 0000001E

04-May-08  11:43:15 
KD4HBO>TELEM,TELEM:029492AD000FA10006FF900003FC10000E0000FFFEFB9801CF0218

73, Armando, N8IGJ