Cute-1.7 Satellite - Reset and Recovery Successfull !

Communications with the Amateur Radio Satellite Cute-1.7 was lost on Wednesday 8th March and an appeal was put out for Amateurs to monitor the telemetry beacon frequency 437.385 MHz see:
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/march2006/cute_urgent_appeal.htm

Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society (CARS) member David Barber G8OQW has been supplying the Cute-1.7 team in Japan with telemetry data and on Thursday 9th March he received the following email from the Project Manager which indicates that the satellite has now been successfully reset.

73 Trevor M5AKA

Dear David Barber,

We were succesful in reset and recovery of Cute-1.7 + APD CW transmitting on recent Tokyo visible pass.
If you have some time to receive on the next pass, please confirm the CW HK data.

Thank you for your every receaving!!

Naoki Miyashita
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Cute-1.7 + APD Project Manager.

Cute-1.7 information: http://lss.mes.titech.ac.jp/ssp/cute1.7/index_e.html

CARS meet on the 1st Tuesday of each month at the Marconi Social Club (MASC), Beehive Lane, Great Baddow, Chelmsford, CM2 9RX. The doors open at 7:15pm and visitors are most welcome. Car parking is free and a bar is available for refreshments.

For a map see: http://tinyurl.com/dwsud

For further information contact the secretary Martyn Medcalf G1EFL
Tel: 01245 469008
E-mail: info2006@<no spam>g0mwt.org.uk
Website: http://www.g0mwt.org.uk/

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