On 9/29/13, Raydel Abreu Espinet (CM2ESP) cm2esp@frcuba.co.cu wrote:
Hi Bernhard and all,
I guess you are looking into the wrong catalogue number. Allouette-2 is 1965-098-A, not "L" which is what you looked for. I download its TLE regularly from Space-Track. NORAD Number is 01804.
The TLE I am sending you is from 4 days ago are still good, in a previous e-mail I sent the frequencies:
0 ALOUETTE 2 1 01804U 65098A 13267.80431926 .00000325 00000-0 11085-3 0 4491 2 01804 079.8011 254.0639 1347527 258.0698 086.6578 12.24267898109332
Mike Kenny has a nice page with old ages and historical 136-138 MHz band emitters. I don't remember the address, but you can Google it.
By the way, my apologize to the rest of the AMSAT-BB readers, as it is not a
100% ham sat topic....
I stand corrected. I gathered what I found before was information about Alouette 2's debris, which I assumed was referring to an inactive satellite. There's also an entry for 1965-098K, which is also debris.
The correct URLs for Alouette 2 would be:
http://n2yo.com/satellite/?s=1804 http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/masterCatalog.do?sc=1965-098A
There's more information on Alouette 2 at:
http://astronautix.com/craft/alouette.htm
Also, I found these links to be useful:
http://planet4589.org/space/space.html http://planet4589.org/space/log/launch.html http://planet4589.org/space/log/satcat.txt
By the way, your comments prompted me to look up the HearSat mailing list and I signed up for it earlier this evening. Thanks for the tip. Now I have another way to have fun with satellites!
Perhaps listening for old satellites might be a suitable topic for a Journal article.
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL