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

[Raydel Abreu Espinet (CM2ESP)]

Hi Bernhard and all,

I guess you are looking into the wrong catalogue number. Allouette-2 is 
1965-098-A, not "L" which is what you looked for. I download its TLE 
regularly from Space-Track. NORAD Number is 01804.

The TLE I am sending you is from 4 days ago are still good, in a previous 
e-mail I sent the frequencies:

0 ALOUETTE 2
1 01804U 65098A   13267.80431926  .00000325  00000-0  11085-3 0  4491
2 01804 079.8011 254.0639 1347527 258.0698 086.6578 12.24267898109332

Mike Kenny has a nice page with old ages and historical 136-138 MHz band 
emitters. I don't remember the address, but you can Google it.

By the way, my apologize to the rest of the AMSAT-BB readers, as it is not a 
100% ham sat topic....

73,

Raydel, CM2ESP


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "B J" <va6bmj at gmail.com>
To: "Raydel Abreu Espinet (CM2ESP)" <cm2esp at frcuba.co.cu>
Cc: "AMSAT-BB at amsat.org" <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: CASSIOPE's Foldable Antennas


> On 9/28/13, Raydel Abreu Espinet (CM2ESP) <cm2esp at frcuba.co.cu> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I found a tracking URL for it:
>
> http://n2yo.com/satellite/?s=25058
>
> Apparently it re-entered on 1999-12-15 and NASA has nothing on it:
>
> http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/masterCatalog.do?sc=1965-098L
>
> Alouette-1, on the other hand, is still in orbit:
>
> http://n2yo.com/satellite/?s=424
>
> and here's what NASA has on it:
>
> http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/masterCatalog.do?sc=1962-049A
>
> Now you've got me interested.....
>
> 73s
>
> Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL