Some are reporting hearing the beacon of CAS-2T, however, I had not been hearing it for the past few days. Yesterday I set it on the Beacon Frequency and waited without tuning around. Sure enough it was eventually heard, but not in a continuous stream. It would send "CE" and then go silent for a while. Then it would send "CASS" and go silent, maybe for a minute or two before sending "CE" again. No response on the voice repeater frequency. In the past it had stuttered when activated.
The HO-68 beacon was heard on frequency sending the data but often times it would stop sending in the middle of the data group. It would go off for some time and then come back sending a few characters before going off again. The beacon frequency has been absolutely stable for years. Frequency settings have not been changed here for years and it is always right there every time.
73, John K8YSE/7
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My assumption is that people listening for the CAS-2T beacon have not been patient the last few days. It is not continuously transmitting as it was after launch. There is a very long pause between transmissions (several minutes.) I copied the same series of letters as K8YSE/7 yesterday.
There might be some confusion on reporting satellite operational status on the AMSAT OSCAR Status Page (http://www.amsat.org/status.)
"Not Heard" can be subjective. Either the transponder was not heard or the beacon was not heard. My opinion is to only use "Not Heard" when you have tried the transponder and telemetry/beacon frequencies. Only if you do not hear either one should you report "Not Heard."
73 Clayton W5PFG
On 11/25/2016 12:26, John Papay wrote:
Some are reporting hearing the beacon of CAS-2T, however, I had not been hearing it for the past few days. Yesterday I set it on the Beacon Frequency and waited without tuning around. Sure enough it was eventually heard, but not in a continuous stream. It would send "CE" and then go silent for a while. Then it would send "CASS" and go silent, maybe for a minute or two before sending "CE" again. No response on the voice repeater frequency. In the past it had stuttered when activated.
The HO-68 beacon was heard on frequency sending the data but often times it would stop sending in the middle of the data group. It would go off for some time and then come back sending a few characters before going off again. The beacon frequency has been absolutely stable for years. Frequency settings have not been changed here for years and it is always right there every time.
73, John K8YSE/7
Hi John, all !
The last pass I listen to CAS-2T was on November 13th. I will try again tomorrow morning.
About Xiwang-1 HO-68, just after the recent post of BA1DU I tried in vain and I gave up. Your mail gives me hope again and I tried around 1625 UTC, a not too good pass of orbit nr 33385 in western Europe and, against all expectations, Xiwang-1 was partially alive, sending few characters between long periods of silence. The signal was significantly weaker than in the past, but it's a real pleasure to hear again the old bird. For comparison, this is a record of the last time I heard Xiwang-1: http://f5yg.pagesperso-orange.fr/incoming/HOPE-1_orb27606_13sep2015.mp3 And now the one of this evening pass, orbit 33385: http://f5yg.pagesperso-orange.fr/incoming/HOPE-1_orb33385_25nov2016.mp3 at 19:25:25 UTC "BJ1SA XW XW AAA TTT", then at 19:26:40 "BJ1SA XW XW".
It was at night, so I will try again tomorrow morning with hope, the solar panels illuminated, to receive a full telemetry string.
Best 73 !
Jean-Pierre F5YG
On 25/11/2016 18:26, John Papay wrote:
Some are reporting hearing the beacon of CAS-2T, however, I had not been hearing it for the past few days. Yesterday I set it on the Beacon Frequency and waited without tuning around. Sure enough it was eventually heard, but not in a continuous stream. It would send "CE" and then go silent for a while. Then it would send "CASS" and go silent, maybe for a minute or two before sending "CE" again. No response on the voice repeater frequency. In the past it had stuttered when activated.
The HO-68 beacon was heard on frequency sending the data but often times it would stop sending in the middle of the data group. It would go off for some time and then come back sending a few characters before going off again. The beacon frequency has been absolutely stable for years. Frequency settings have not been changed here for years and it is always right there every time.
73, John K8YSE/7
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Hi John The CAS-2T has just passed over Brazil and the beacon still are working , very strong . The problem in my opinion looks that the sat reset before finish the complete set of caracteres , I mean , sometimes it send CASI or CASE , even CAS only . Since the number 2 must be the next letter , I think it can not TX the entire "2" (. . _ _ _ ) Just my guess. 73
2016-11-25 16:26 GMT-02:00 John Papay [email protected]:
Some are reporting hearing the beacon of CAS-2T, however, I had not been hearing it for the past few days. Yesterday I set it on the Beacon Frequency and waited without tuning around. Sure enough it was eventually heard, but not in a continuous stream. It would send "CE" and then go silent for a while. Then it would send "CASS" and go silent, maybe for a minute or two before sending "CE" again. No response on the voice repeater frequency. In the past it had stuttered when activated.
The HO-68 beacon was heard on frequency sending the data but often times it would stop sending in the middle of the data group. It would go off for some time and then come back sending a few characters before going off again. The beacon frequency has been absolutely stable for years. Frequency settings have not been changed here for years and it is always right there every time.
73, John K8YSE/7
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