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<blockquote data-quote="2old4this" data-source="post: 9938" data-attributes="member: 174998">Stargazer - are sure it works this way? It seems doomed to failure. It would never be able to guarantee that the &quot;right&quot; satellite was being associated with the found signal.You're saying that it starts at the east position, and looks first for a specific transponder it associates with its east-most sat. Having found that, it fixes the position, and moves on to the next transponder in its list - that associated with its next east-most sat. And so on. But if it's doing that without keeping track of any longitudinal information at all, then it would go completely wrong if it so happened that one of its target transponders was not transmitting (or signal simply not found) at the epected satellite, but WAS found at a different satellite. It might end up thinking that Panamsat was Astra just because of where it happened to detect a signal. I bet it goes wrong a LOT.And where are these target transponder details stored? Are they part of its firmware, or are they user-definable?2old</blockquote>

[QUOTE="2old4this, post: 9938, member: 174998"] Stargazer - are sure it works this way? It seems doomed to failure. It would never be able to guarantee that the "right" satellite was being associated with the found signal. You're saying that it starts at the east position, and looks first for a specific transponder it associates with its east-most sat. Having found that, it fixes the position, and moves on to the next transponder in its list - that associated with its next east-most sat. And so on. But if it's doing that without keeping track of any longitudinal information at all, then it would go completely wrong if it so happened that one of its target transponders was not transmitting (or signal simply not found) at the epected satellite, but WAS found at a different satellite. It might end up thinking that Panamsat was Astra just because of where it happened to detect a signal. I bet it goes wrong a LOT. And where are these target transponder details stored? Are they part of its firmware, or are they user-definable? 2old [/QUOTE]

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