On 9/28/13, Raydel Abreu Espinet (CM2ESP) cm2esp@frcuba.co.cu wrote:
Regarding Canada's Space Program, did you know that Canada's oldie satellite
Allouette-2 is back to live???, or at least its transmitters.....
That's interesting because there was no mention of it in the news here.
While I was monitoring the 136-138 satellite sub-band a couple of months ago
with a RTL2832U based cheap SDR dongle I founded weird doppler shifted signals not matching any known transmitting satellite. After reporting it on
the HearSat mailing list and posterior confirmation from Mike Kenny in Australia the best match was Canadian old satellite Allouete-2 launched in 1965.
It is amazing how solar panels, antennas and transmitters stages are functioning after 48 years!!! It can be heard on: 136.076 +- 2 KHz with high instability, strong. 136.589 with unmodulated sub-carriers, weak. 136.981 Continuos Wave.
I'll have to see if I can hear it.
All three transmitters are alive after many years. It seems that due to some
unknown reason it started to transmit again. May be the very same UFO which
un-plug the batteries from the AO-07 bus ran across that oldie historical satellite and push the "ON" button HI HI HI HI HI!!!
Maybe there's hope for some of our other silent OSCARS, such as AO-51.
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL
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