On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Joe Leikhim <[email protected]> wrote:
> One thing I don't fully understand are the spot beams. If this is a bent > pipe, how do they control which beam serves the terminal? And if ground > based command, would they not have a record of which spot beam that MH370 > was utilizing, therefore know approximate location and direction ? The spot beams are only used for high speed data, like for example a phone call. The data rate for status reporting is very low, Only a few hundred baud if I remember right. I think they have to request a spot beam connection via the low speed link to get one. -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
