I am very new to satellites so please don't be too hard on me in regards to this post.
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.
Also at the time I heard what I believe is some form of radar that sounded almost like a siren. The signal was pinning the S-meter. Each time I heard the siren signal I had low flying jets above. No doubt in my mind there was a connection between the two. The jets were over 3 times, the siren signal was also 3 times. It was strongest when the jets were directly overhead.
Please excuse me if my questions have already been answered.
73, James WA5AOO
You probably heard RS-30. It comes in quite well on 70cm. SOmetimes I find it following close to AO-51 passes.
Reid, W4UPD
On 3/29/2011 4:17 PM, James Luhn wrote:
I am very new to satellites so please don't be too hard on me in regards to this post.
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.
Also at the time I heard what I believe is some form of radar that sounded almost like a siren. The signal was pinning the S-meter. Each time I heard the siren signal I had low flying jets above. No doubt in my mind there was a connection between the two. The jets were over 3 times, the siren signal was also 3 times. It was strongest when the jets were directly overhead.
Please excuse me if my questions have already been answered.
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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
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