On this part of my homepage
you find soundtracks from various space objects including
satellites, manned and unmanned space ships and space
stations. Many of these objects are no more operational
and I hope this archive will allow especially younger
people to listen also to those objects, which are already
gone. However, I hope that also some older people will
enjoy to listen to the "Sounds from Space"
which they may have heard live many decades ago. Please
excuse the partially poor quality of some of the sound
files. Keep in mind that most of the more than 600 recordings
are quite old. You can listen to a "Sound from
Space" whenever you click on one of the little
animated speaker icons  |
Matthias DD1US
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How did this page get
started? I have been interested in satellite communications
since the early 80's. I had subscribed to the NASA Prediction
Bulletin mailing list and received every week a pile
of paper with keplerian elements of various space objects.
First I tracked them  using
hand calculations and charts. Later I developed my own
satellite tracking software to generate predictions
and even ground plots. I tracked many satellites as
well as MIR and Shuttle missions, both by receiving
their radio signals as well as observing them visually.
You can read more about my early activities and how
I got hooked to satellites by clicking on the satellite
ground plot picture to the right. |
Alois
DL3PD
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However this page did
not really get started before I received one day an
audio cassette with some historical sound files from
my friend Alois Ochojski DL3PD (+ April 2007). They
were derived from a phono-card, which he had received
in 1962 from the national broadcast service of CSSR.
He was kind enough to record it to tape and I finally
converted them to digital audio files. You can hear
an introduction to these files read by Alois DL3PD by
clicking on his picture on the left. The original comments
are in Czech language. After posting this initial set
of 6 historical files, I started browsing through my
own old tape recorded audio files, which were mostly
signals of ham radio satellites and weather satellites.
Finally I also searched the internet and asked other
people, whether they might have some older recordings
too. Fortunately many of them were kind enough to agree
and thus to support this project by submitting their
own audio files. |
In December 2007 this
collection got another big push when I got in touch
with Greg Roberts, ZS1BI, in Cape Town/South Africa.
I guess I convinced him to start a project he had planned
but pushed out for long time. Greg finally started to
convert his old recordings from a tape recorder with
elastic belt drives to electronic format. He is a retired
professional astronomer and since 1957 has been actively
involved in the tracking of artificial satellites, both
by optical and radio means. Click on his picture to
the right to get more information about him and his
activities. |
Greg ZS1BI
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If you have further
recordings from space objects please let me know. I
will be happy to post them on my homepage. You can help
making this site become more valuable over time - many
thanks in advance !
Vy 55 & 73 de Matthias DD1US
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