[amsat-bb] Duchifat3 FM transponder?

[Nicholas Mahr KE8AKW]

Yes we have been discussing this on twitter. It was successfully launched
yestorday by ISRO and shortly after it was heard by Glenn AA5PK and a few
others over the US on 436.420 with the FM repeater active. As of today the
FM repeater is not on, only 9600 baud telemetry. So very good sign the
satellite is functioning well. There's also a good chance that the repeater
will be active continuously rather on a schedule as they said all 3 of its
payloads will operate in "parallel"

Frequencys:

Downlink: 436.420 (stated 436.400 but it's been heard 20khz above the
published frequency for some reason)
Uplink: 145.970 no tone

Status as of this post: 9K6 telemetry only.

Preliminary TLE  (not 100% accurate but close) allegedly could be object
2019-089B

DUCHIFAT-3
1 84101U          19345.41319444  .00000000  00000-0  50000-4 0    08
2 84101  37.0000 148.0000 0001442   0.0000 140.0000 15.02563222    03


73 Nick KE8AKW