[amsat-bb] Digital Sat. status at Feb.14

[Mineo Wakita <je9pel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Digital Sat. status at Feb.14:

   GO-32 ... 435.225MHz  9600bps FSK : Beacon only
   SO-41 ... 437.075MHz  9600bps FSK : Not heard
   SO-42 ... 436.775MHz  9600bps FSK : Not heard


GO-32 is transmitting only beacon every 30 seconds as follows.

   [14Feb2001 00:46:29 UTC] TechSat-V8.7D ***
   [14Feb2001 00:46:59 UTC] TechSat-V8.7D ***

   The part of above '***' is a unknown telemetry.


Amsat News report on SO-41,42 as follows

> Launched: September 26, 2000 aboard a converted Soviet ballistic
> missile from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Status: Commissioning stage,
> initial housekeeping tasks underway
> 
> SaudiSat-1A,1B will operate as 9600 baud digital store-and-forward
> systems as well analog FM repeater mode capability. One of two
> new ham satellites from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia built by the
> Space Research Institute at the King Abdulaziz City for Science and
> Technology.


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Name : JE9PEL/Mineo Wakita, JAMSAT member
Mail : je9pel@jamsat.or.jp
URL  : http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/
QTH  : Yokohama Japan, GL:PM95TJ
Date : Feb 14, 2001
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