Re: [amsat-bb] POSAT

[John Melton <John.Melton@xxxxxxx>]

I have been monitoring POSAT for several months on 429.950 and it is not
really being used.  It has a strong signal and it is easy to copy it's
9600-baud downlink.  It looks like it is in excellent health.

As it is operating outside of the ham bands I can only collect data from
it that is being requested by the ground station in Portugal so I do
miss a lot of the data.  However, it is only log files and I have not
seen any message traffic or images.  It's call log shows 2 call signs
POCTRM and EI3U.

When it was first moved off of the ham frequencies it was still being
used to collect earth images and also star images,  but I have not seen
that being used for a couple of years.  There is a gallery of images
from POSAT at http://www.dop.ineti.pt/posat/www/index.htm.


-- John Melton G0ORX/N6LYT


On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 04:57, Mark wrote:
> John, my records indicate the following.
> 
> Broadcast Call = POSAT1-11
> BBS Call       = POSAT1-12
> 
> Uplink = 145.925 FM (9600-baud FSK)
>           145.975 FM
> 
> Downlink = 435.255 FM (9600-baud FSK)
>             435.275 FM
> 
> Once it was gotten up and running, the downlink frequency was moved just 
> outside of the 70cm band to 429.950.  But, I have not listened for it in 
> a long long time, so whether or not its still operational is a good 
> question!
> 
> Good Luck!  Mark, Ku7z
> 
> 
> jcowens@netscape.com wrote:
> 
> > When I download 2 line KEP info from CELESTRAK, I get data for a SAT called POSAT. I can find nothing on this bird at AMSAT site. I must be missing something??
> > 
> > JOhn Owens - N7SEJ
> > 
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