[time-nuts] iGPS?

Bob Camp kb8tq at n1k.org
Tue May 19 17:33:50 EDT 2015


Hi

The Iridium frequencies are even further “up band” than the Glonass signals. None of the
“GPS” antennas that I have tried work very well on Glonass. I doubt they would do well
at all trying to get Iridium. 

Bob

> On May 19, 2015, at 1:57 AM, David I. Emery <die at dieconsulting.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 09:52:03PM -0700, Jim Lux wrote:
> 
>> Why iridium?  Why not Sirius or XM or DBS. Unless you want something 
>> world wide, as opposed to "populated areas served by broadcast radio and 
>> TV"
> 
> 	Well it seems to me I remember Iridium is time domain duplex
> around 1610 MHz or thereabouts... which isn't too far from the L1
> civilian GPS at 1575.42 and quite possibly inside the bandwidth of
> some civilian L1 LNAs and antennas.
> 
> 	Sirius XM is not that close at 2320-2345 Mhz.
> 
> 	And inside its spot beam the Iridium signal is quite a bit more
> powerful and coming at one from constantly changing angles... whilst 
> the Sirius XM birds are either geosync or in Molninya orbits and don't
> move much over short intervals - as does an Iridium signal.
> 
> 	And of course (for the military especially) it IS worldwide and
> not just restricted to NA (where such an anti-jam capability is less 
> useful at least at the moment).  Something that works world wide
> is of course what the military folks need.
> 
> 	And I suspect timing can be derived from the satellites TDD
> and message timing pretty easily if that is accurately synced to some
> reference...
> 
> 	Others more familiar with the details may comment here...
> 
> -- 
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