16°W ABS3

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Anonymous_1

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First test
11200 H , small spike
2 X 72 Mhz TP test
11540 H & 11480 V

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hvdh

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My Satellite Setup
Dr.HD F16, TBS 5927, T-55, Laminas 120 cm
My Location
Oss, NL (5.5°E 51.8°N)
This old 1997 satellite is doing strange things!
Stayed near 16°W only from Nov 2015 to mid-Feb 2016, since then slowly moving East, with just 0.3° per day (today near 10°E).
I started thinking something must be wrong, out of fuel maybe? But no, ABS-3 is going somewhere, all the way to 85.3°E. At this speed, arrival in October!
ABS » Center of Box
(See the Tab name of the xlsx file behind "Save File").
 
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hvdh

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My Satellite Setup
Dr.HD F16, TBS 5927, T-55, Laminas 120 cm
My Location
Oss, NL (5.5°E 51.8°N)
ABS-3 left 85.3°E on 1 August 2017, slowly drifting West with 0.3°/day.
On 27 September 2017, the drift increased to 1.0°/day. This could have been the last end-of-life manoeuver?
Since today, ABS-3 is no longer listed in their fleet: ABS » Home
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