{"id":9540,"date":"2024-07-06T06:23:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T00:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/techworld\/?p=9540"},"modified":"2024-07-06T07:21:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T01:51:09","slug":"listening-io-86-amateur-radio-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/techworld\/listening-io-86-amateur-radio-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening IO-86 Amateur Radio Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mnx8p-ESikQ?si=vl_x3AwiLW68IzV9\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nToday morning there was a pass of LAPAN A-2 (IO-86) amateur radio satellite, starting at 5.27 am IST (UTC+5.30). It was a pass with 32 degrees maximum elevation in my region. But the activation of the voice transponder as per schedule published on their <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pr_teksat\/status\/1807596932594090085\">Twitter page<\/a> was beyond the Time of Closest Approach in my region, at 5.35 am. So I kept my fixed elevation azimuth Moxon Yagi pointed a bit beyond the azimuth of maximum elevation in this region. At about 5.35 am, I started hearing signals from IO-86, about 5 kHz below the nominal frequency as the satellite was beyond the point of TCA.<\/p>\n<p>Nominal uplink is 145.880 MHz with 88.5 Hz CTCSS tone and downlink on 435.880 MHz. I was tuning Doppler manually in my IC 2730 full duplex radio, using the display on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amsat.org.ar\/pass.htm\">Argentinian Amsat pass prediction webpage<\/a>. Signals were not as strong as on a previous pass in which activation of voice transponder corresponded to the TCA. Still I could hear a couple of Indonesian stations having contacts, though my calls presumably did not reach them, possibly because of my limited setup.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the curated recording of the pass, after removing most of the hissing noise of the open squelch in the radio.<\/p>\n<p>Though I could hear two more stations, I could not make out the callsigns in full due to the low signal strength.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today morning there was a pass of LAPAN A-2 (IO-86) amateur radio satellite, starting at 5.27 am IST (UTC+5.30). It was a pass with 32 degrees maximum elevation in my region. 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