Phase 3-D has been sucessfully launched in November 2000, and it's telemetry signals (400 Bit/s BPSK) can easely be heard on 145,898 MHz. +- Doppler shift with even simple turnstyle or vertical antennas. 

Sample of the BPSK audio signal

Click here to play the sound track

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Tracking and rotor control with WinTrack Pro
and
Decoding BPSK-signals with IZ8BLY's soundcard P3D-decoder

more information: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/phase3d.html

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