The AMSAT FUNcube-1 / AO-73 educational satellite was launched on Thursday 21st November 2013.
(Photo courtesy AMSAT-UK)
It has already been heard, and data decoded, by LRS member John GM8OTI. John reports it's very loud on his 5-element yagi. Alan GM3PSP has also heard it using a vertical antenna.
The nominal beacon / data frequency is 145.935MHz. Start about .938 and follow down to .933 with the Doppler-shift. The beacon / data signal consists of a band of noise, presumably data, about 2kHz wide, with a tone dash every 5 seconds
The transponder is now active: up on 435.150 - 435.130MHz; down on 145.950 - 145.970MHz.
GM3PSP heard GB3RS in QSO on 145.960 at 10:50z on Friday morning.