[amsat-bb] What is this phenomenon?

Jean Marc Momple jean.marc.momple at gmail.com
Sun Jul 15 16:17:52 UTC 2018


Scott,

I believe that it was your post on twitter which trigger my check on N2YO when I receive same so to ascertain that it was XW-2E, if not I would probably to thought of it.

73


Jean Marc (3B8DU)

> On Jul 15, 2018, at 8:00 PM, Scott <scott23192 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> As others have mentioned, this is XW-2E.  Here is a tweet w/ screen shot
> that I posted the other day showing ALL of the transmitters doing
> more-or-less the same thing:
> 
> https://twitter.com/scott23192/status/1013583542096416768
> 
> 73!
> 
> -Scott,  K4KDR
> 
> 
> ==========================
> 
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 10:42 AM, Hans BX2ABT <hans.bx2abt at msa.hinet.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for the hint. The frequencies are indeed of XW2E and around that
>> time almost all the XW2 sats came flying over. The screenshot was of July
>> 15, 0547UTC, so where can you find if a satellite was indeed over your area
>> at that time in the past? --Hans BX2ABT
>> 
>> 
>> On 07/15/2018 10:18 PM, Jean Marc Momple wrote:
>> 
>>> Hans,
>>> 
>>> This is XW2E I believe, it seems that it came back to life, I got same at
>>> time this bird was supposed to be over my area.
>>> 
>>> Also Mike (DK3WN) succeeded to decode its CW telemetry, see his blog
>>> http://www.dk3wn.info/p/.
>>> 
>>> 73
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Jean Marc (3B8DU
>>> 
>>> On Jul 15, 2018, at 6:04 PM, Hans BX2ABT <hans.bx2abt at msa.hinet.net
>>>> <mailto:hans.bx2abt at msa.hinet.net>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Could you please take a look at this image <
>>>> http://bx2abt.com/main/data/_uploaded/image/20180715_1747-baffled.png>?
>>>> I'm new to the VHF/UHF world and I have no idea what this is? Anybody?
>>>> 
>>>> 73 de Hans
>>>> 
>>>> BX2ABT
>>> 
>>> 
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