[amsat-bb] Yubileiny RS-30 CW beacon

[Hugh Brown]

Hans (BX2ABT) wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm trying out my 4 element 70cm LFA and (finally) received some decent
> signals from Athenoxat-1 (437.485 MHz). I had some good passes for Yubileiny
> RS-30 in the last couple of days, but I didn't observe anything. So,
> questions:
> 
> 1) is RS-30 dead or still alive?
> 
> 2) if alive, on which frequency is the morse code beacon active 435.215 or
> 435.315?
> 
> 3) what mode should I use then: FMN or pure CW.
> 
> I would like to know if anybody has observed RS-30 recently. On the web I
> can't find any recent observations. Thank you.

Hi Hans -- one place to look is the SatNOGS project
(https://satnogs.org).  If you haven't come across it before, it's an
open-source network of satellite ground stations.  There are stations
around the world, and a large database of the observations they've
taken.

Just to run through how I tracked down observations for RS-30:

- I went to https://db.satnogs.org and searched for "RS-30" and got to
this page: https://db.satnogs.org/satellite/32953/

- I clicked the link to "SatNOGS Network Observati}ons":
https://db.satnogs.org/satellite/32953/

- That shows a lot of failed observations (in red), so I clicked on
the red "X" button underneath "Status" to filter them out. (I mention
this because it seems a little counter-intuitive to me.)

- That left this list of observations marked "Good":
https://network.satnogs.org/observations/?future=1&good=1&bad=0&unvetted=1&failed=1&norad=32953&observer=&station=
  
- For each of those, you can visit the individual observation page and
see the waterfall, and listen to the original recordings.  There's one
from March and one from April.

Now, about those observations...looking at the waterfall, I don't see
any sign of CW in them.  Observations are marked good or bad by the
person who scheduled them, and occasionally mistakes are made.
However, you may want to listen to the audio -- I have had
observations where CW was faintly audible, even if it didn't show up
in the waterfall.

As for whether it's alive -- doesn't look good so far :-( but I'll let
folks who know more give a more definitive answer.

Hope that helps!

73,
Hugh

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