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- Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 13:42:01 +0200
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- Receiving Inmarsat
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- Dear Doc:
- Thanks to your information I got the Inmarsat AOR. Since I could use
- AFN-radio as a 24h-indicator, it was been esay to locate the bird. Now I
- tried very hard to find the IOR-Inmarsat. I believe it is on 64░ east, but
- did not find any signal on 1537 mc. Do you know of any frequency-indicator
- to tune in? Which one is more exiciting, AOR or IOR?
- thank you, C.C.Rubin
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- Dr.Dish:
- On the INMARSAT 3F1 at 64 degree east (at the moment at 63.90) is the
- AFN-radio not present. Instead you can use a data-stream on 1537.745 MHz
- which delievers a constant strong signal as indicator. For INMARSAT A
- reception you got 339 channels in 25 kHz-spacing (ch.1=1535.025 and
- ch.339=1543.775). Diificult to say which one delivers the more exciting
- traffic. to me it is the IOR-INMARSAT. It is to us European more excotic
- and the dangerous Strait of Malacca is the source of many emergency calls.
- I do not know your location in Europe, but the 3F1 delivers at my place
- (51░N/6░E) strong signals. I just finished a small booklet about receiving
- INMARSAT A-traffic in the german language (its called something like:
- Inside INMARSAT-A Traffic in Theory and Practice) and will hopefully
- available in the english language in due time.
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- -- Christian Mass (Dr.Dish)Ö
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