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Old 01-09-2007, 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by wejones View Post
I assume that these birddog things identify the sats based on what is on various transponders, and if those transponders are changing as much as the Nimiq sats seem to change, then it makes sense that that the birddog would have problems.
I think that is horse feathers Bill. The Birdog looks for and locks onto the identifier beacon transmitted from one of the satellite's transponders. This unique ID beacon doesn't change with transponder content. At least that is my understanding. I know that one of my Birdogs has been successfully finding Nimiq 82 and 91 since 2002 without having to reconfigure the file. The other one (version US 2.0) needed a refreshed config file but then it worked OK.

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