Re: [amsat-bb] Commerciat 2.4 GHz sats

[Jim.Walls@xxxxxxx]

At 08:52 AM 7/15/02 -0500, Tom Busch - WB8WOR wrote:
>XM-1 and XM-2, for the XM satellite service.  They are geosynchronous, and

>you can find keplerians for them at http://www.celestrak.com.  Look in
geo.txt.
>
>By the way, I plotted the footprint for these and it appears there is no
>service in Alaska, but it seems to cover a big part of the Pacific Ocean.

According to Nova, XM-1 (at 89.3 degrees) covers most of Alaska - except
the western portion of the state).  XM-2 covers all of Alaska.  I will
point out that the coverage may be pretty marginal as the angle is pretty
low, but all of Alaska is in at least one of the footprints.
73

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