fredy
September 23, 2025, 5:13pm
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I’ve created a separate topic topic for this as you suggested to discuss it a little more.
The only known transmission around that frequency was from the Russian satellites deployed by hand Tanusha 1 and 2 and Tomsk-TPU-120.
I’m wondering what is the source of this signal.
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EU1SAT
September 23, 2025, 5:19pm
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A weak signal, it seems to be broken or not connected antenna.
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fredy
September 23, 2025, 5:24pm
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I’ll create a new transmitter for ISS and try to watch if we can get more observations.
As still close, I’ll share the time of the stations between the ISS and the deployed satellites.
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K4KDR
September 23, 2025, 6:12pm
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While it seems unlikely, I believe that there are some not-yet-deployed cubesats on the ISS from NG-23 that are scheduled to downlink in the lower 437 MHz range:
EagleSat-2: 437.165
SilverSat: 437.175
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fredy
September 24, 2025, 9:47am
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I think the first step should be to verify that this transmission is 100% coming from ISS, so we need observations from other stations to verify it.
@EU1SAT don’t get me wrong I believe you and I’m 99% sure is coming from ISS, but I have this 1% that we may miss something.
In parallel there was also a similar finding near this frequency we are talking about:
Here is an interesting reception SatNOGS Network - Observation 12410418 .
The signal seems to fit the ISS TLE but not the new ones we generated for GHS-01. The signal is at 437.081, instead of the 437.090 and it is very faint and not visible in other high pass observations at the same time. Also the signal looks like voice.
I’m not sure how to interpret this and in my mind run different scenarios:
The signal comes from ISS, then why is so faint and why in this unexpected frequency.
The signal…
Not exactly at 437.025 but near.
K4KDR:
While it seems unlikely, I believe that there are some not-yet-deployed cubesats on the ISS from NG-23 that are scheduled to downlink in the lower 437 MHz range:
EagleSat-2: 437.165
SilverSat: 437.175
To be honest I’m finding it unlikely given that the observed frequency is more than 100KHz away from these satellites’ frequencies. But it doesn’t hurt to keep it as a scenario.
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fredy
September 25, 2025, 12:49pm
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@EU1SAT Did you noticed any other transmission than the ones you shared?
From the Network’s observations there isn’t anything observed until now. But I’ve scheduled a couple more observations for the next days to see.
EU1SAT
September 25, 2025, 7:37pm
27
Within 3 days, I observed this signal on several pass every day.
Now I am on a short -term vacation and I can’t observe satellites.
The signal is very weak and a high performance antenna is required.
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EU1SAT
October 1, 2025, 2:10pm
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EU1SAT
October 1, 2025, 3:49pm
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It seems that my observations are a signal transfer from 437.800 MHz due to ADC overload!!!
I think the topic can be closed or even deleted.
I apologise to everyone in your lost time.
To @fredy :
The transmitter and observation must be cancelled!
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SA2KNG
October 1, 2025, 7:59pm
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No worries (:
It is always something to learn.
I’m guessing youre running the rtlsdr at 1.536MHz ? I think that could explain the 768kHz difference giving 437.032MHz
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EU1SAT
October 1, 2025, 8:02pm
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Today:
In previous observations, I used Decimation 64 and 32.
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fredy
October 2, 2025, 7:51am
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Thank you for letting us know! Another mystery solved!
No need to apologize, RF observations can be tricky, so everything is a lesson for our community!
I’m going to invalidate the transmitter in the next hour.
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