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Offline Yardley

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Chinese surveillance balloon
« on: February 04, 2023, 2113 UTC »

It has to transmit and receive.

Has anyone been able to hear anything from this thing?

Remembering Sputnik, I'm very surprised the amateur radio/monitoring community hasn't been all over this.
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Re: Chinese surveillance balloon
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2023, 2123 UTC »
They shot it down off the coast of Carolina today, looks like your too late.
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Re: Chinese surveillance balloon
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2023, 0202 UTC »
Yes, but it is still possible someone was able to hear something, if it was indeed communicating.
Hope someone will "rise" to the occasion, and not be full of "hot air"!  ;)
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Re: Chinese surveillance balloon
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2023, 1518 UTC »
Sputnik "beeped" in the MW band. It was the USSR's way of saying, "Up yours, America!" every time it went over.
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Re: Chinese surveillance balloon
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2023, 1539 UTC »
Quote from: Pigmeat on February 06, 2023, 1518 UTC
Sputnik "beeped" in the MW band. It was the USSR's way of saying, "Up yours, America!" every time it went over.
Sputnik "beeped" on 20 & 40 MHz;
The only "beeping" on MW was as to why Ike was out playing golf while the Russians were preparing a satellite. 
« Last Edit: February 06, 2023, 1609 UTC by sat_dxer »
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Re: Chinese surveillance balloon
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2023, 2203 UTC »
Quote from: sat_dxer on February 06, 2023, 1539 UTC
Quote from: Pigmeat on February 06, 2023, 1518 UTC
Sputnik "beeped" in the MW band. It was the USSR's way of saying, "Up yours, America!" every time it went over.
Sputnik "beeped" on 20 & 40 MHz;
The only "beeping" on MW was as to why Ike was out playing golf while the Russians were preparing a satellite.

Ike was cool like that. He'd won the war in Europe, he wasn't sweating a metal cantaloupe with whiskers circling overhead.
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Re: Chinese surveillance balloon
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2023, 1831 UTC »
Dunno if they still have the links up but the balloons were commercially available worldwide, however chicom mil modified theirs a bit, theirs had things they could deploy/eject, among other goodies. I presume the balloons used sats to communicate the imint/sigint harvest back to Peking.
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