[Scan-DC] MILSAT comms

[AllanStern at aol.com]

"Andrew Clegg" _w4jecom at w4je.com_ (mailto:w4jecom at w4je.com)   posted:
> Does anyone have any experience receiving the ~250 MHz MILSAT  satellite
> downlink signals? With the previous success of seeing the  Orbcomm and 
GOES 
> satellite signals pretty easily at 137 and 401 MHz, I  have been trying 
to do 
> the same with the MILSAT signals, checking out  the 253 MHz band for the 
> beacon frequencies, and other channels as  well. So far, I have not 
detected 
> a peep. Are these signals very very  weak compared to Orbcomm and GOES?
 
   Every day I snag comms on the MilSat freqs in  the 250, 260 MHz area.
   Most of what I hear are comms from Brazilian  Hams who are "hijacking" 
the satellites for long distance comms.
   Occasionally I hear legitimate Military comms  though.
   My primary receiver for these comms is a  Radio Shack Pro-43 handheld 
scanner, with a Radio Shack center-loaded whip  attached; the 
scanner-with-antenna are mounted on a bookcase shelf near a  window.  I do not use a 
preamplifier. That's it, and I hear comms from  the sat every day.
   When I first shared this information, I heard  back from several other 
fellows who do that same as I do.
   I also snag the comms via an outdoor-mounted  NilJon HD WB Omni, but the 
Pro-43 with the center-loaded whip is working just as  well.

 
AL STERN  Satellite Beach  FL
AllanStern at aol.com
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