[amsat-bb] Telemetry on 145.96 MHz

Jeff Johns jeff30339 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 16 22:51:14 UTC 2020


Yep. It’s a real nuisance and causes a lot of issues when trying to work AO-91. 

Jeff WE4B 

> On Apr 16, 2020, at 5:41 PM, Rick Tejera <SaguaroAstro at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> Jeff, that is probably it. Rusty lives a few miles from me so I  ran it in SatPC 32 and found MVS came over DM33 at 1736UT 15 Apr on a descending pass and AO-91 came over on an ascending pas at 1745UT. Dm33 was in the mutual footprint between 1745 and 1747.
> 
> I'll have to listen for it, from the looks of things these two bird cross path fairly often.
> 
> Rick Tejera (K7TEJ)
> Saguaro Astronomy Club
> www.saguaroastro.org
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> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Telemetry on 145.96 MHz
> 
> Most likely it is the Max Valier satellite. 
> 
> Jeff WE4B 
> 
>> On Apr 16, 2020, at 1:42 AM, wizardofzid via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I've heard a CW telemetry signal on 145.96 (AO-91 downlink frequency) 
>> 5-10 min. before the FM pass.  It's a bit hard to copy CW on a FM 
>> receiver but I've heard it 3 times in the last 2 days.  Seems to fade 
>> out prior to the AO-91 pass.  I expect it is an analog bird but so far 
>> I haven't figured out which.  Any guesses?Rusty, WA8ZIDSent from my 
>> Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone 
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