hardie@sask.UUCP ( the Born Again Programmer) (01/08/85)
I heard a CW signal apparently from a satellite (i.e. doppler shifted) this evening between 1807 and 1815 local time (8th dec 0007-0015Z) on 29.401Mhz. It was transmitting the number 5015 7 times followed by the number 55 and then repeated this whole sequence all the time. I could not stay to listen to it to get its time of LOS. Although its frequency is the HF beacon for RS-3, none of the RS birds were above the horizon at the time. Can anyone identify it? tnx + 73 pete ve5bel ihnp4!sask!hardie
karn@petrus.UUCP (01/10/85)
I just ran a check on the reported time for Pete's observations and found that RS-8 was just setting (at 00:07 UTC) (I assume you meant the 8th of January, not December, Pete!) One possibility is that you were hearing below-the-horizon signals from a bird, probably RS-5, since I heard a report last night that it is failing and the telemetry is sending garbage. (After all, 10 meters *is* supposed to be a DX band, at least once in a while). This has been reported numerous times with 10 meter satellite beacons, and the phenomenon seems to occur most often when the satellite is near the antipode. At that time, RS-5 was at an elevation of -65 degrees to your QTH. Phil Karn, KA9Q