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| Gonets D-1 Transmissions
Gonets is a business-orientated store-dump communications system that grew out of the military/government Strela programme. Strela itself had been operating since the early 1960s in support of the military, the intelligence services and the Soviet government.
2009 early-March, a reasonably comprehensive list of transmitting frequencies was derived from observations in the UK and the Netherlands. The conclusion is that eight of the ten Gonets satellites in orbit are transmitting. Interestingly, Reshetnev, the satellite manufacturer, states on it web site that only six satellites are operational.
Identification of individual satellites is difficult, particularly when several are above the horizon at the same time.
Gonets D1-3 seems to be off air and is assumed to have failed. The newest satellite, Gonets D1M is not transmitting in the same band as the others. There are frequencies reported for it on the web but they appear to be erroneous, and several entries can be explained by misidentification of the other Gonets-D, or even Strela, satellites in orbit.
Thanks are due to Ary Boender and Hans Oeben for their assistance in this piece of work on both the Strela-3 and Gonets-D1 satellites.
| Freq (MHz) |
Satellite |
Payload |
Signal Type |
Notes |
| 263.086 |
Gonets D1-1
(Gonets-D1)
1996-009A
23787 |
Store-dump comms |
FM - mutiple sideband, 0.5s trigger signal every minute plus occasional data bursts |
Has been reported on other frequencies in the past - entry updated 2009 Mar 8 |
| 265.059 |
Gonets D1-2
(Gonets-D1)
1996-009B
23788 |
Store-dump comms |
FM - mutiple sideband, 0.5s trigger signal every minute plus occasional data bursts |
Has been reported on other frequencies in the past - entry updated 2009 Mar 8 |
| 265.137 |
Gonets D1-3
(Gonets-D1)
1996-009C
23789 |
Store-dump comms |
FM - mutiple sideband, 0.5s trigger signal every minute plus occasional data bursts |
Has been reported on other frequencies in the past - entry updated 2009 Mar 13 |
| 264.750 |
Gonets D1-4
(Gonets-D1)
1997-006D
24728 |
Store-dump comms |
FM - mutiple sideband, 0.5s trigger signal every minute plus occasional data bursts |
Has been reported on other frequencies in the past - entry updated 2009 Mar 8 |
| 264.400 |
Gonets D1-5
(Gonets-D1)
1997-006E
24729 |
Store-dump comms |
FM - mutiple sideband, 0.5s trigger signal every minute plus occasional data bursts |
Has been reported on other frequencies in the past - entry updated 2009 Mar 8 |
| 262.910 |
Gonets D1-6
(Gonets-D1)
1997-006F
24730 |
Store-dump comms |
FM - mutiple sideband, 0.5s trigger signal every minute plus occasional data bursts |
Has been reported on other frequencies in the past - entry updated 2009 Mar 8 |
| 262.910 |
Cosmos 2386
(Gonets)
2001-058C
27057 |
Store-dump comms |
FM - mutiple sideband, 0.5s trigger signal every minute plus occasional data bursts |
Has been reported on other frequencies in the past, this is a Gonets even though listed elsewhere as Strela-3 through a NORAD name mix-up - entry updated 2009 Mar 8 |
| 262.910 |
Gonets-D1-7
(Gonets)
2001-058D
27058 |
Store-dump comms |
FM - mutiple sideband, 0.5s trigger signal every minute plus occasional data bursts |
Has been reported on other frequencies in the past - entry updated 2009 Mar 8 |
| 262.910 |
Gonets-D1-9
(Gonets)
2001-058F
27060 |
Store-dump comms |
FM - mutiple sideband, 0.5s trigger signal every minute plus occasional data bursts |
Has been reported on other frequencies in the past - entry updated 2009 Mar 8 |
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