[SADXA] Amazing ham radio ops hunt zombie satellites.

[Darrel]

That was a fascinating story about LES-5.

I never used the LES-5 that he found, but I used to use the LES-7 and 
LES-8 geosynchronous satellites fairly regularly, in collaboration with 
Lincoln Labs, for radio astronomical antenna calibration measurements.  
They had a powerful transmitter with a tight radio beam up at 38 GHz, 
which at the time was much higher in frequency than any other available 
satellite transmissions.  They arranged for the military to point their 
satellite antenna beam at our telescope for the duration of our 
measurements.  The military were very keen on there being an official 
"POC"  (Person of Contact) present for the duration of the measurements 
- that was usually my role.

     Cheers,
          Darrel, aa7fv.

On 4/24/2020 3:45 PM, Theodore DOWNING via SADXA wrote:
> Long-Lost U.S. Military Satellite Found By Amateur Radio Operator
>
> Love this NPR story....on our colleagues.
>
> https://apple.news/AG7G0CghmQyu5qUTgIWGeVg
>
> Ted Downing w7key
>
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