Non-Lyngsat satellites

[mastermesh]

Any signals worth going for on the stuff at:
http://www.geo-orbit.org/

that's not listed on lyngsat?

and/or you know of any other lists like that with non-lyngsat stuff?

 

[Mr Tony]

considering that list wasn't updated since 01, I'd say no

heck, 1/2 those satellites either are renamed, upgraded or gone

 

[sksatellite]

Yes, this is an over ten years old site, while the BUG still around, wonder why it still around.

 

[voomvoom]

master, have you tried http://www.satcodx.com/usa/ . It's another lyngsat type site, but I usually go to lyngsat myself.

Al

 

[IA6Newspath]

Heck, 1/2 those satellites either are renamed, upgraded or gone.

So now you tell us...after I've spent all morning trying to pull in signals from SBS 4 and Anik E1...

 

[Mr Tony]

any list that shows "GE" as a satellite name I run from

 

[MikeI]

Westar, Telstar & Spacenet being a few others I can think of too.

 

[crawfrdb]

considering that list wasn't updated since 01, I'd say no

heck, 1/2 those satellites either are renamed, upgraded or gone

Yes, I became a little suspicious when I saw RCA Satcom F1 listed

 

[mastermesh]

most on that list were dead...

but there's a few other things up there...

Here's a similar, more up to date list: http://www.satnews.com/free/satdata.html

Goes12 has a signal... working my way through the others. All the Lyngsat stuff is on there, and a few others, like Noah weather sats, etc.

Note - they are using degrees East on that list... so to get the degrees west you have to take 360-their number...

 

[123tim]

Goes12 has a signal... working my way through the others. All the Lyngsat stuff is on there, and a few others, like Noah weather sats, etc.

I don't want to sound like an expert on this - I just read it off of another website, but NOAH apparently downlinks at 137MHz. It looks like reception is possible for a couple hundred dollars though:

http://www.hobbyspace.com/Radio/WeatherSatStation/index.html
http://www.uvm.edu/~swarley/wx.html

A Google search of ( "weather satellite" reception ) seems to come up with a lot of interesting links.

Aren't most (all?) non-communication satellites located in an inclined orbit?

I hope that you get more replies. I'm very interested in picking up other satellites too. There have been post in the past, about building tracking systems, but they always seem to fizzle out for some reason.

 

[Tron]

Many (most?) non-communications satellites will not be in a geosynchronous orbit.

 

[123tim]

Mastermesh,
You might be interested in this satellite tracking program located here:
http://www.satscape.co.uk/index.html

(Satscape)

 

[123tim]

Many (most?) non-communications satellites will not be in a geosynchronous orbit.

Tron,
Bummer. Is there anything on any of these, which could be received with a FTA receiver?

Thanks.

 

[mastermesh]

hmmm..

I did pick up signal on Goes12 and Goes13, but am not sure if it's a real signal from them or if it's signal bleed from another nearby bird... Goes12 scanned pretty quick and picked up about 3 tv channels, some of which were named in such a way that they look to be newsfeeds or something. Goes13 picked up a couple of stations too, but I think that was signal bleed - didn't get all of Goes13 (or whatever was coming in on that angle) since I started the blind scan late/early last night (about 1:00am) and it was still going early this morning (7:00 am), just sort of hanging - I think it detected something like 50 tps.... so I'm guessing the signal was either fooling the receiver in to thinking there was something there and there really wasn't, it was bleed from another satellite's signal, or there really was somthing there worth looking at, but it takes a LOOOOOONG time (hours) to blind scan the full satellite

GOES stands for geostationary operational environmental satellites
http://www.noaa.gov/satellites.html

so I'm guessing it's goestationary.

 

[mastermesh]

GOES Locations: http://goespoes.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/timeline.html

Going to probably try to scan some more on some of them tonight or tomorrow.

 

[voomvoom]

master, the Pansat is notorious for hanging up on DATA transponders. I would think there are a lot of DATA transponders on a Weather satellite. By hang up, I don't mean "freeze up", I mean it scans and scans and scans and it's not in the 1st part of the scan where it searches the satellite for transponders, but in the 2nd part where it scans the found transponder. After a few minutes of scan on the same transponder, I will back out for lack of patience. If I persue the scan, I will go into TP scan for an individual channel scan and avoid SR's of 30000, 20000, or 10000, which usually seem to be the DATA transponders, or at least the transponders giving the trouble.

Al

 

[mastermesh]

yep...

it was the 30k that caused the stall this morning.

 

[Mr Tony]

yep. those dang data TP's screw with my Pansat 1500 all the time.
Coolsat is seems to sit and then go on. Fortec sort of does that too (sits a while) but the Pansat will sit for a minute or longer

 

[mastermesh]

Another Tracker for some other satellites: http://science.nasa.gov/realtime/jtrack/NOAA.html - not sure if these have actual tps on them that have stuff fta receivers can pick up. I doubt it, but you never know.

Hit Config button and you can pull in NASA, NOAA, and more...

 

[123tim]

It seems that both the polar orbit, and and GOES satellites still transmit data using radio facsimile. I sort of remember reading something about building a receiver setup using a radio facsimile machine back in the '80's (Wow).
From this link: http://noaasis.noaa.gov/NOAASIS/ml/satservices.html (which has more information about GOES than I can handle), I read that Low Rate Information Transmission/LRIT will be replacing the facsimile transmissions (last year) For what it's worth, that sounds like a lot of data that a mpeg receiver won't be able to digest. Hope that I'm wrong.