BDSat-2 near re-entry

BDSat-2 is coming down, currently at about 300 km.
The re-entry is predicted for February 13th.

On UHF over Europe they are downloading with all one’s might, but on VHF the digipeater works like a charm.
The beacon is currently transmitted every 15 seconds.

Please make skeds if you are capable of 9k6.

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BDSat-2 seems to have re-entered some time after last reception on 2025-02-13 02:47:14 UTC.

Only @DG9MA followed my request for a sked.

What’s interesting is that compared to the 1k2 digipeaters on ISS and SONATE-2, the 9k6 digis on VERONIKA, GRBBeta, CroCube and LASARSat are really used very rarely. The Same also applied to BDSat-2.
As for CroCube and LASARSat I’m still the only one being shown up on the dashboard since almost three month in orbit.

Why is that?
I would appreciate comments from people who use 1k2 satellites instead of or rather than 9k6 satellites.

Daniel


Only 11 users over a little more than 2 years.

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I’ll have a guess, IC-9700 not capable of 9k6 ?
Maybe some more rigs that can be hard to make them work, not sure.
It is standard HAM deviation so should not be that hard.

Actually, this is what I also have guessed!
However there a many people around there with older rigs, still capable of 9k6.

Looking forward to hearing something from them.