Has anybody?
 

Managed to hook up a HF radio to a satellite receiver and picked up
any transatlantic telephone calls, would love any info on this

Or is everything digital now?

I cant find any information on this topic so I expect it cant be done :-(

"Oliver Gunnell" wrote in message
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Managed to hook up a HF radio to a satellite receiver and picked up
any transatlantic telephone calls, would love any info on this

Or is everything digital now?

I cant find any information on this topic so I expect it cant be done :-(

I think there's still some narrow band FM analogue INMARSAT A stuff about
around 1.6GHz.

I don't know an awful lot about the innards of a satellite receiver, but I
would imagine you might be able to grab a snifter of the IF and pop it into
a receiver with a suitable demodulator like this...
http://www.g6lvb.com/icr3mod.htm.

Try http://www.drdish.com which has some detail on this stuff. (It is not
legal to listen to signals outside the broadcast or amateur bands in the UK
unless you are licensed so to do).

For amateur satellites, http://www.amsat.org and http://www.uk.amsat.org

73 Howard G6LVB

In message , Oliver Gunnell
writes
Managed to hook up a HF radio to a satellite receiver and picked up
any transatlantic telephone calls, would love any info on this

Or is everything digital now?

I cant find any information on this topic so I expect it cant be done :-(

Try http://www.gchq.gov.uk/

HTH

Brian
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Brian Howie

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 06:42:01 +0000, Brian Howie
wrote:

Try http://www.gchq.gov.uk/
damn!
someones published the top-secret address

now they'll have to register another one :-)

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 06:48:18 +0000, Walt Davidson
wrote:

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 00:05:07 GMT,
m.ru.br.net
(class_a_zpk_12wpm_unlike_2800) wrote:

Try http://www.gchq.gov.uk/
damn!
someones published the top-secret address

now they'll have to register another one :-)

They have.

It's http://www.cesg.gov.uk/

damn!
someones published the top-secret address

now they'll have to register another one :-)

"Brian Howie" wrote in message
...
In message , Oliver Gunnell
writes
Managed to hook up a HF radio to a satellite receiver and picked up
any transatlantic telephone calls, would love any info on this

Or is everything digital now?

I cant find any information on this topic so I expect it cant be done :-(

Try http://www.gchq.gov.uk/

HTH

Brian
--
Brian Howie

Intresting Brian, maybe a job there for me :)