satellite cw beacon heard on about 145.820 MHz
I often set one of my FM radios on 145.825 when I am not actively doing much else just on the oft chance I might hear the ISS pass by.
Yesterday and today while I was close to the radio I notice some CW breaking the squelch on the radio and just now I fired up a SDR to see what I could hear (and see).
Definitely a satellite (lots of doppler) frequency about as high as 145.820 and faded out at LOS around 145.812 around 2020-05-08 1945 UTC I am located near Ottawa Canada.
CW around 15 wpm sending 10 characters like T1YBZGZDZZ. I didn't write down every group - too busy trying to track.
A quick look through satellite / frequency listings didn't provide a quick answer so I am wondering if someone might have an idea on what satellite this is.
cheers, Graham ve3gtc
That's probably the Triton-1 CW beacon.
https://www.pe0sat.vgnet.nl/satellite/cube-nano-picosats/triton/
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 4:00 PM Graham c via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
I often set one of my FM radios on 145.825 when I am not actively doing much else just on the oft chance I might hear the ISS pass by.
Yesterday and today while I was close to the radio I notice some CW breaking the squelch on the radio and just now I fired up a SDR to see what I could hear (and see).
Definitely a satellite (lots of doppler) frequency about as high as 145.820 and faded out at LOS around 145.812 around 2020-05-08 1945 UTC I am located near Ottawa Canada.
CW around 15 wpm sending 10 characters like T1YBZGZDZZ. I didn't write down every group - too busy trying to track.
A quick look through satellite / frequency listings didn't provide a quick answer so I am wondering if someone might have an idea on what satellite this is.
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Speaking of CW beacons, I tried to copy the CW beacon from CAS-4B this morning and all I found was a continuous tone/carrier. It was doppler shifting so I assume I was hearing (and watching on waterfall) the satellite but no CW. Is this normal? Does it just send code on certain occasions?
Steve AI9IN ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Stoetzer via AMSAT-BB (amsat-bb@amsat.org) Date: 05/08/20 16:35 To: Graham c (colonelkrypton@gmail.com) Cc: AMSAT BB (amsat-bb@amsat.org) Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] satellite cw beacon heard on about 145.820 MHz
That's probably the Triton-1 CW beacon.
https://www.pe0sat.vgnet.nl/satellite/cube-nano-picosats/triton/
73,
Paul, N8HM
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