Australian Ham Radio Discussion Forum ( AHRDF )

From text edition for JULY 14 2019 - VK NATIONAL NEWS BROADCAST ON VK1WIA : http://www.wia.org.au/members/broadcast/wianews/

Also in MP3 edition of news available at: http://www.wia-files.com/podcast/wianews-2019-07-14.mp3

CAS-7B launch expected July 22 2019

Alan BA1DU reports the Amateur Radio satellite CAS-7B (BP-1B) is expected to launch at 05:00 GMT on July 22.
The launch vehicle Hyperbola-1 will run for some 14 minutes ( 862.0206 seconds ) and then CAS-7B satellite will deploy.
CAS-7B is a spheriform spacecraft of 500 mm diameter with a mass of 3kg

CW Telemetry Beacon: 435.715MHz 20dBm
V/U FM Transponder Downlink: 435.690MHz 20dBm, 16kHz bandwidth
V/U FM Transponder Uplink: 145.900MHz 16kHz bandwidth

Provisional TLE for tracking:
CAS-7B(BP-1B)
1 99999U          19203.21831019 -.00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0 00008 2 99999 042.7339 005.2478 0013606 285.8754 218.2911 15.94575752000011

CAS-7B information https://amsat-uk.org/2019/06/02

It will launch a bit over 50 years since another memorable launch...

Anyone heard of any contacts being made on this satellite?  I have heard the beacon, but have not heard any signals on the down link.

Further to the above, does anybody know of any real-time spotting sites for satellite contacts, or who has worked what?

73

Wayne VK4WDM