[amsat-bb] VS-14 -Sentinel-1B and cubesat launch

[Jean-Pierre Godet]

   Hello Ken, all !

   Very strong signal of the CW beacon from the OUFTI-1 bird this 
morning, orb nr 20 around 0550 UTC.

HI HI DE OUFTI1 A 45 4A BA BA TA TT BU UU UU TT T6 TT AB 8B
etc... etc...

   73 !

   J-P F5YG

On 26/04/2016 09:52, GW1FKY at aol.com wrote:

> Hello Jean,
> Thanks for the information - I did not get an opportunity to listen on
> the earlier pass for either of the satellites.
> However I have  just monitored on a good high pass between 0933  - 0937
> hrs GMT.
> I heard data bursts from AAUSAT -2 and they were very strong even with
> my simple "ELK" antenna and tracking set up.
> I was trying to also monitor e-st at r11 <mailto:e-st at r11> but did not
> hear anything either. May have missed of course with having to change
> back and forward to AAUSAT- 2.
> Also monitoring OUFTI-1 but again nothing heard but I cannot be sure, I
> was expecting the beacon to be on
> 145.980 Mhz.
> Hoping that the delays with the launch have not caused any problems for
> the teams.
> Trust all goes well and good luck with the decoding.
> Regards
> Ken
> GW1FKY