[amsat-bb] Re: CASSIOPE's Foldable Antennas

[Raydel Abreu Espinet (CM2ESP)]

Regarding Canada's Space Program, did you know that Canada's oldie satellite 
Allouette-2 is back to live???, or at least its transmitters.....

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.

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!!!

All the bests and 73,

Raydel, CM2ESP


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "B J" <va6bmj at gmail.com>
To: <bstguitarist at gmail.com>
Cc: "Amsat BB" <AMSAT-BB at amsat.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 12:12 AM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: CASSIOPE's Foldable Antennas


> On 9/28/13, Bryce Salmi <bstguitarist at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I was watching the Canadian Space Agencies BROLL video of the CASSIOPE
>> satellite due to launch in a few days and noticed a neat antenna. The 
>> video
>> link below starts at the appropriate point in the video (feel free to 
>> watch
>> the whole video too). For what looks like it is essentially steel tape
>> measure metal... that's quite an intense antenna and deployment! I'm used
>> to seeing these on cubesats and other small satellites but this is very
>> neat to see too.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WGD4cWnpcto#t=245
>
> It looks like it's the descendant of what was used on Canada's first
> satellite, Alouette-1:
>
> http://www.spacenet.on.ca/data/pages/canada-in-space/alouette.html
> http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/alouette.asp
>
> Many years ago, there was a documentary about the early days of
> Canada's satellite program and I remember this was mentioned.
> Unfortunately, I don't remember what the name was.
>
> 73s
>
> Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL
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