[amsat-bb] What is this phenomenon?

[Hans BX2ABT]

Laugh all you want. GPredict doesn't have an entry for XW2E, so I tuned 
by hand..........to the wrong frequency. And the pass was an 85 degrees 
elevation one, so perfect for getting a good strong signal. Murphy's 
law. In the end I did see some telemetry on 145.890, same as yesterday, 
but I couldn't detect any CW beacon.

73 de Hans

BX2ABT


On 07/16/2018 08:30 AM, Hans BX2ABT wrote:
> Thanks Scott. I turned back the clock on my phone to 0547UTC and ran 
> my tracker and XW2E was indeed right over my QTH at that time. Will 
> try again today to see if I can get any telemetry out of the CW 
> beacon. On DK3WN there is a report from a Japanese ham who decoded it 
> on July 12th.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Hans
>
> BX2ABT
>
>
> On 07/16/2018 12:00 AM, Scott 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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