Interesting.
Only a few days ago there was a comment that a satellite launched 15 years ago was transmitting on 144.390 which was being used for weak signal meteor scatter in Europe. That was unintentional and in any case only sent a couple of very short beacons per minute.
Now we see another satellite 'licensed' very recently using exactly the same frequency and a lot of other satellites transmitting on frequencies allocated to repeaters and other services.
I presume the IARU were 'informed' of these frequencies rather than coordinating them.
I wonder if the head of licensing in Bejing is the same chap who thought the Anti satellite missile test, that produced thousands of pieces of space debris, was a good idea.
(rant over)
David
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Stoetzer n8hm@arrl.net To: amsat-bb amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 15:19 Subject: [amsat-bb] CAMSAT launch scheduled between Sep 7th-9th
Earlier this morning, the ARRL posted this update on the launch of nine CAMSAT amateur satellites, now scheduled for sometime between September 7th and 9th :
http://www.arrl.org/news/chinese-amateur-radio-satellites-set-to-launch-in-e...
There's also a nice frequency chart for the nine amateur satellites on this launch:
http://www.arrl.org/files/media/News/XW-2CAS-3%20Sats.pdf
September should be a fun month!
73,
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