Space Frequency Listing, 138-170 MHz, Downlink

Sven Grahn


Radio amateur satellites not included
Frequencies currently known, or believed to be in use or potential use marked red.


Frequency (MHz) Use
139.056 ATS-6
139.208 FM voice to Mir from Shuttle during ISS Phase 1. STS-91, -81, -86, -89
140.056 ATS-6
141 AMPTE-IRM
141.056 ATS-6
142.417 FM voice with up to 30 kHz deviation from:
Soyuz-19, -22
Salyut-7
143.075 TUBSAT-1
143.625 FM voice with up to 30 kHz deviation from:
Vostok-1,-2, -3, -4,-5, -6
Voskhod-1,-2
Salyut-3,- 5
Mir
Maroc/Tubsat
144.028  BADR-1
144.1 Maroc/Tubsat
145.0 Soviet ASAT target satellites. PPM-AM. Kosmos-909, -967, -1171, -1241. -1375
145.825 BADR-1
149.91 Military Soviet/Russian Navsats such Kosmos-2184
149.915 Kosmos-1386
149.94 Military Soviet/Russian Navsats such as Kosmos-2218, -2180, -2279
149.97 D-1A Diapason
D-1C Diademe 1
D-1D Diademe 2
Military Soviet/Russian Navsats such as Kosmos-2135, -2195, -2266, .....
149.98 TRANSAT
HILAT
Polar Bear
149.988 Transit satellites
TIP satellites (Transit Improvement Program)
NOVA-1, -2, -3
150.000 Transit-4A, -4B, -5A, -5A-3, -5B N-2, -5C-1, -5B N-5, 
Nadezhda-1, -2, -3, -4
POGS + SSR
Civilian Soviet/Russian Navsats such as Kosmos-2181, -2230, ....
150.010 GFO (Geosat Follow-On)
150.012 USA-6, USA-33 , CW beacon from KH-11 satellites, Picosat 9
150.015 Geosat
Radcal
150.03 Military Soviet/Russian Navsats, e.g. Kosmos-2142, -2233
150.3 PCM-FM TM, 300 kHz wide:
* 2 s frame from geodetic Kosmos satellites such as -2088, -2226, GEO-IK5
* 1 s frame from LEO topographical Kosmos satellites such as Kosmos-2349
153.42 CW beacon (<1 W) "Heavy ELINT" Soviet/Russian Kosmoses, e.g. -1975, -2058
153.48 CW beacon (<1 W) "Heavy ELINT" Soviet/Russian Kosmoses, e.g. -1953, -2151
153.60 CW beacon (<1 W) "Store-dump" Kosmoses, -1570. -1937, -1954
153.66 CW beacon (<1 W) "Store-dump" Kosmoses, -1898, -2056, -2112
153.72 CW beacon (<1 W) "Store-dump" Kosmoses, -1992, -2050
162.00 CW beacon coherent with other harmonics:
TRANSIT-1B,-2A,-3B
ANNA-1B
SN-4, -43
Explorer-22, -27, -29, -36
GEOS-3
APOLLO-18 ASTP
NOSS-2
SEASAT-1
MAGSAT
CHINA-11
166.0 Soyuz (PPM-AM)
Progress (PPM-AM)
Soyuz-T, -TM (PCM/FM)
Progress-M (PCM/FM)
Mir (PCM/FM)
Gamma-1 (PCM/FM plus tone signals with 3.7 sec frame)
Soviet ASAT interceptors, e.g. Kosmos-1243
Kosmos ocean radar reconnaissance satellites (RORSATS), (PPM-AM)
Kosmos early ocean ELINT satellites (EORSATS), (PPM-AM)

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