On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 14:39 -0400, Alex Balashov wrote: > This I know; I was wondering about specifics.
I think orbcomm has some coverage of that area as well. They claimed 98% of the earth most of the time and 2 minutes until one pops up in an uncovered area. You can always look for keplerian elements of telecom satellites and see which are in polar orbit and which would go down that far. Some geostationary (longer delay not typically used for voice) may be reachable with a larger gain antenna (read bigger parabolic). NASA offers "jtrack" free which is a web based tracking system for satellites (they already have the keplerian elements for many up there) and I think google earth also has them, so you can look for networks that can at least make it reasonable and rule out the rest. Then its an issue of who has what gear specifically. I am assuming of course you already ruled out an easier way to find who is doing what, using search engines ... Google seemed to indicate that "telecast fiber systems inc" linked antartica for a telecast, perhaps they are using the surplus bandwidth for some voice. There are rumors that GBLX has a satellite link there http://www.globalcrossing.com/news/2008/june/05.aspx I am sure a fairly simple google query would return even more information, perhaps http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=antarctica +telecommunications&btnG=Search -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel pgp key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8AE5C721
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