[amsat-bb] Duchifat3 FM transponder?

[skristof at etczone.com]

Thank you, Nick. Good info. Are there plans to give it an OSCAR number
and add it to the "Pass Predictions"? Perhaps the AMSAT News Service
could publish an update for this forum. 

Steve AI9IN

On 2019-12-12 12:44 pm, Nicholas Mahr KE8AKW via AMSAT-BB wrote:

> 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
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