It seems the HO-68 is no longer speaking. I watched all the passes over Europe August 3rd, yesterday 4th and the one beginning at about
0845 UTC (org. nr 27093) today 5th and I heard nothing around his 435.790 MHz usual frequency…
The last received telemetry here was on July 28th, orb. nr 26994. Maybe I heard one or two other passes the next days, but as I did not
keep the records I’m not sure.
Jean-Pierre F5YG
Xiwang-1 HO-68 July 28th 2015 1955 TU orb. nr 26994 :
BJ1SA XW XW AAA TTT AUE TNT ETT TTT TTT TTT TTT TTT TTT TTT TTT XW XW
From the telemetry data, the only significant parameters (at the beginning of the frame, 111 000 125 090 500) was about as usual :
– PA2 working (no transponder) ;
– beacon only ;
– transponder temp. = 25 deg. C ;
– beacon RF output power = 90 mW ;
– beacon power supply voltage = 5.00 V ;
(all other values are zero as usual).