>I have been doing some reading up on a system that might interest people > > ARGOS > > ARGOS is fitted to most polar orbiting weather satellites > > This is used to pick up beacons on 401 MHz. Fixed to animals, buoys etc. > > The early generation of ARGOS systems were doppler RX only. (1 / 2) > > NOAA 19 is the first polar bird to be fitted with the new 465 MHz TX > funtion.(ARGOS 3) > > What this does is sends empheris data and also polls ground beacons, hence > saving on TX when no satellite is around. > > METEOP is also fitted with the same system > > - Andrew VK4TEC -
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