Hello,

Just a typical non-technical sw listener, and frankly now next to nothing re
antennas.
But do like picking up maritime and mil stuff.

Was thinking of trying out a new software Inmarsat program for receiving and
decoding Inmarsat msg's.

Apparently the freq. used is around 2 GHz
My NRD 545 wiuth the converter gets up there, I think.

They mention that you need a parabolic dish antenna, and I think it was an L
type downfeed feed.

Think a Discone antenna and reg. coax would pick up "anything", or not worth
the time to even try ?

Thanks,
Bob