[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 7, Issue 247

[Thomas Frey]

amsat-bb-request at amsat.org schrieb:
> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 10:23:21 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Jean-Pierre Godet<godetj at wanadoo.fr>
> To:ans-editor at amsat.org
> Cc:amsat-bb at amsat.org
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Yubileiny-2 RS-40
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>     Dear friends,
>
>     Thanks to Jean-Louis Rault F6AGR who quickly informed me, I heard my
> first signal from Yubileiny-2 RS-40 on monday July 30th afternoon. The
> signal of the 435.365 MHz beacon was fairly strong regarding my poor
> receiving devices and aerials.
>     After that, the beacon was heard on 435.265, but more often on 435.365
> MHz, sometime none of these two frequencies. I am using the 2012-041D
> NORAD elements. I am not sure it is the good one, but for the moment A, B,
> and C, the three others payloads launched with the same Rockot vehicle are
> not too far away.
>
>     Trying to get information about the Yubileiny-2 satellite, I sent
> inquiries about the telemetry and the possibility that may be one of the
> beacons will move to CW as it was done with the previous Yubileiny-1 RS-30
> and Mozhayets-4 RS-22, but I received no reply till now : three mails in
> russian, to the Siberian State Aerospace University (RS-40 instruments and
> research mission, Rrasnoyarsk), to ISS Reshetnev (company manufacturing
> the RS-40 satellite, Krasnoyarsk), and to A. P. Papkov (Laboratory of
> Astronotical technology, Kaluga, who published the telemetry decoding of
> RS-22 and RS-30).
>     We are waiting with hope but, may be I am wrong, looks like the
> university and the ISS company are not very interested by a collaboration
> with the radioamateur community, only by their frequencies around 435 MHz.
>
>     73 !
>
>     Jean-Pierre/F5YG
>    

Hello Jean-Pierre

You are right, they have absolute no interest for us radio amateurs.
And this could be a problem, if this Russian satellites flies over
Europe and transmits their DOKA-B signals in FM (!) in the 435 MHz
frequency range.

Look for first hand infos in this PDF-document:
http://home.datacomm.ch/th.frey/Yubileiny-2.pdf

MiR(Yubileiny-2) is active in DOKA-B only in range of a control station
in Russia, e.g. Moscow.

-- 

Mit freundlichen Grüssen, Regards, 73
     Thomas Frey, HB9SKA
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