Hi Bernhard and all,
I guess you are looking into the wrong catalogue number. Allouette-2 is
1965-098-A, not "L" which is what you looked for. I download its TLE
regularly from Space-Track. NORAD Number is 01804.
The TLE I am sending you is from 4 days ago are still good, in a previous
e-mail I sent the frequencies:
0 ALOUETTE 2
1 01804U 65098A 13267.80431926 .00000325 00000-0 11085-3 0 4491
2 01804 079.8011 254.0639 1347527 258.0698 086.6578 12.24267898109332
Mike Kenny has a nice page with old ages and historical 136-138 MHz band
emitters. I don't remember the address, but you can Google it.
By the way, my apologize to the rest of the AMSAT-BB readers, as it is not a
100% ham sat topic....
73,
Raydel, CM2ESP
----- Original Message -----
From: "B J" <va6...@gmail.com>
To: "Raydel Abreu Espinet (CM2ESP)" <cm2...@frcuba.co.cu>
Cc: "AMSAT-BB@amsat.org" <amsat-bb@amsat.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: CASSIOPE's Foldable Antennas
On 9/28/13, Raydel Abreu Espinet (CM2ESP) <cm2...@frcuba.co.cu> wrote:
Regarding Canada's Space Program, did you know that Canada's oldie
satellite
Allouette-2 is back to live???, or at least its transmitters.....
While I was monitoring the 136-138 satellite sub-band a couple of months
ago
with a RTL2832U based cheap SDR dongle I founded weird doppler shifted
signals not matching any known transmitting satellite. After reporting it
on
the HearSat mailing list and posterior confirmation from Mike Kenny in
Australia the best match was Canadian old satellite Allouete-2 launched
in
1965.
I found a tracking URL for it:
http://n2yo.com/satellite/?s=25058
Apparently it re-entered on 1999-12-15 and NASA has nothing on it:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/masterCatalog.do?sc=1965-098L
Alouette-1, on the other hand, is still in orbit:
http://n2yo.com/satellite/?s=424
and here's what NASA has on it:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/masterCatalog.do?sc=1962-049A
Now you've got me interested.....
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL
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