Hundred eleventh edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter

(Date: Sun Dec 3, 2006 12:55 pm (PST))

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Military stations | Unid stations | Utility round-up
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Space communications < 500 MHz

CubeSat GeneSat-1 is scheduled for launch on 11 Dec. It will transmit AX.25 1200bps FM/AFSK telemetry transmissions on 437.075 MHz. Check for more info http://www.genesat1.org

CubeSat P-POD is scheduled for launch on 16 Jan.
http://cubesat.atl.calpoly.edu/pages/missions/dnepr-launch-2.php

POD-A, B and C all include a number of satellites. I only mention the sats that communicate on freqs <500 MHz.

POD-A

• CAPE-1
  University of Louisiana ( USA )
  http://cape.louisiana.edu/
  435.245 MHz : 9600bps FSK AX.25

POD-B

• LIBERTAD-1
  Universidad Sergio Arboleda (Colombia)
  http://www.usergioarboleda.edu.co/proyectoespacial/index.htm
  437.405 MHz : 1200bps FM AFSK AX.25
  145.825 MHz : Digipeater uplink
• CSTB-1
  The Boeing Company
  http://www.boeing.com/
  http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2006/october/iids02.pdf
  400.0375 MHz : 1200bps FM AFSK AX.25

POD-C

• MAST
  Tethers Unlimited Incorporated
  http://www.tethers.com/Missions.html
  435.275 MHz : 1200bps FM/AFSK AX.25

This month's logs. Thanks for your contributions guys!

Meteo sats

Amateur sats

IO-26 sample:

ITMSAT-1>MBLCTL>UI,?,F0:
C0 80 9A 84 98 86 A8 98 00 92 A8 9A A6 82 A8 03 03 F0 54 27 E4 80 00 18

12 04 00 05 14 06 16 98 2B C0

FO-29 sample:

HI HI M6 03 88 D5 8F F3 05 25 00 24 78 2D 73 5D 8F 8C 9A 5F 82 7E 81 84 77
HI HI A6 03 88 D5 8F F3 05 25 00 24 7C 2F 70 4A 92 8E 9B 7C 82 7E 81 84 76

AO-07 sample:

HI HI 180 180 180 180 252 252 252 252 324 324 324 324
496 496 496 496 568 568 568 568 696 696 696 696 HI HI

Military sats

Transponders were reported on:

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