Re: [amsat-bb] UO-11 "S" band beacon

[K5OE@xxxxxxx]

Chris, Clive,
That is pretty interesting.  Has anyone inquired at UoS about this?  Is it local only when over the command station perhaps?  I have listened to UO-11's S-band beacon regularly for the last 2 months on the weekend mid-day passes and have never heard any modulation.  This past Saturday and Sunday the signals were very strong, peaking about 6 S-units above the noise.  I can provide sample wav files on request.  I do note on ascending passes, it is very strong at AOS, jumping out of the noise, but is much weaker at LOS, barely perceptable above the noise.  I assume this may be due to antenna orientation, but am just guessing.
73,
Jerry, K5OE

In a message dated Tue, 10 Jul 2001  2:00:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Chris Grohmann <Chris.Grohmann@GlobeCastNE.com> writes:

<< I copied UO-11 "S" band beacon last Sunday 8 July at AOS 14:19GMT - orbit
92920.
It again had modulation and although the signal was reasonably strong there
were still lots of bad characters. 
I managed to decode the following:
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@@ Auto Mode is seluk|er
 sxin Period:`532`@
!Z Oqg firings:  102<
 +!SPIN!~irings: 22
 - sPIN firings:!@242
 SGU go}7G'H@@ -25560  Ac
 RAM!WASH pointu;,et00@CAB@
 WO*5commence} I@]4  /@0 3 /`1 a; @0@  :@`.@0
:7@
2with chan~els1@@  @,@@2D8@,    P3 ,61 ,`

 Lcst Command: 1H@110B to @1 , @
1Uoc-
      Qttitudg control initiated, mode0 @

** USaT-OSCAR11 @OBC **
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0SpZ-SO{#t`@- @T`D@$522@i

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The Saturday afternoon passes I heard had all been very low signal level. 
I wonder if anyone else is receiving telemetry?  

73's Chris G4SDG

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