When Wouter says these signals are 'strong', this isn't just the boasting of a proud papa. Drew reports reception with a mobile antenna; I got perhaps the strongest signals I've ever received from a satellite. If you're interested, you should try listening to this new bird with anything you have on hand.

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Wouter Jan Ubbels [email protected] wrote:

All,

we have heard Delfi-C3 during the 1148UTC pass over the TU Delft groundstation, she was on the backup freq of 145.930MHz, with a really strong signal!!! The spacecraft is in science mode, everything has deployed nominally. We got quite some decoded frames which indicate that the spacecraft is in good health. We are currently investigating the telemetry in order to determine the status into more detail. It was incredible to finally hear the faint signals out of the noise, rising to comfortable strength! Reports from accross the globe are welcome, and we have already got quite some hams receiving and uploading good telemetry!!! We were using our old TLE's from the mission ops page, which seemed to fit best, so it's probably best to keep using those for now.

73 on behalf of an even more excited Delfi-C3 team

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