[MilCom] TACSAT 4 relay

[Larry Van Horn-N5FPW]

Our friendly Tacsat 4 (2011-052A) DoD Milsat is on an ascending pass towards 
apogee right now and located 11,900 km in altitude just south of Puerto 
Rico. It's 253.000 MHz downiink is active with AM ATC traffic picked off by 
its uplink. The 253.000 MHz downlink is a flame thrower here in Btown right 
now. None of the other known UHF downlinks are currently active.

Chief

Larry Van Horn, N5FPW
Brasstown, NC USA
MT Assistant/Review/Technical Editor
Milcom Monitoring Post http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @MilcomMP
-----Original Message----- 
From: Zguy1243 Jody
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 11:02 PM
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Subject: [MilCom] TACSAT 4 relay

Here is a short youtube clip of TACSAT 4's pass over the US on Monday. Sorry 
for the quality I grabbed this at last minute with my phone. I am trying to 
figure out what control tower is being relayed via the sat. Maybe some of 
you with sharp ears can pull out what the female controller is saying. These 
communications are not intended to be sent over the satellite, they just 
happen to be broadcasting on this satellites uplink frequency. During this 
pass the satellite was visible over the entire CONUS and Canada....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgvb7yhif-w


Jody
North Georgia
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