[amsat-bb] What is this phenomenon?

[Pedro Converso]

Hans,

I copy very strong TLM for all XW/CAS Satellites.

http://lu7abf.org.ar/pass.htm shows times, freqs and doppler.

73, lu7abf, Pedro

On 7/16/18, Jean Marc Momple <jean.marc.momple at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hans,
>
> Will not laugh, as this is natural, we all try things and it is not straight
> forward particularly with the birds, softwares etc....
>
> I congratulate you to have notice XW-2E anomaly and bring same to the BB for
> discussion. In spite some OM’s already pin point the issue it is important
> that all of us keep a watch (and eyes open) on frequencies and share our
> observations as it may lead to so more discoveries and open new frontiers.
>
> 73
>
>
> Jean Marc (3B8DU)
>
>> On Jul 16, 2018, at 1:42 PM, Hans BX2ABT <hans.bx2abt at msa.hinet.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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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