Hi Dani,
You are seeing the NCBR-1 safe mode beacon. NCBR-1 is a brazilian CubeSat.
It follows the ISIS standard CW beacon format. You can find the meaning of the beacon here: http://www.inpe.br/crs/nanosat/arquivos_nanosat-br/pdf/NCBR1_CW_beacon_decod...
I have forwarded your E-mail to the NCBR-1 team.
73 and Happy new year,
Wouter PA3WEG
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Daniel Estévez [email protected] wrote:
Hi,
I was listening to the AO-73 pass this morning when I heard a CW beacon from a satellite that I have been unable to identify. The signal has the characteristic Doppler shift, so it's definitely from a satellite. The beacon repeats every 30 seconds.
My antenna setup is far from optimal, so only three beacon intervals can be copied (but the signal was strong) on the recording. The CW reads:
B1IBEJZD05 B1IBRJZD05 B1IBEJZD05
My QTH is in IN80DO, near Madrid, Spain, and the time was 10:18 UTC 31/12/2014. The frequency was around 145.866.
I have tried to Google for this CW sequence or the frequency trying to identify the satellite, but I have had no luck. Could anyone help me?
I attach a small audio recording of the CW. The time was 10:18:33 UTC.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2pPGQkeEAfdU3UzRmV4bDhzTHc/view?usp=sharin...
73 and Happy New Year,
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