29 Mar
2011
29 Mar
'11
8:28 p.m.
On 3/29/2011 4:17 PM, James Luhn wrote:
This afternoon at about14:50 cst (07:50 utc) I copied cw that started at 435.310mhz and eventually made it to 435.292 before fading away at roughly 15:00 cst. I am south of Houston, TX, grid EL29, Texas City, TX near Galveston, TX. The code was always 5 character groups. Some of what I copied is MCO53, SMA127, SMB0?, US17A........ I looked on the AMSAT page to see what satellite was overhead and I did not really see one that would fit the strength of the signal (S9) that I was hearing. Perhaps someone can inform me as to what satellite I was hearing.
Sounds like RS-30 to me...a real shame there is no real amateur payload on that satellite!
73, Drew KO4MA