Satellite Government Walkie Talkies

[surfacemount]

I wasn't sure where to place this.
I had seen these units being used by some Tier 1 types awhile back. Then, saw them in a picture in a Drive article. Latest find was a discussion on USSS comm assets.

RF-EMI guy found the company that made some of the protoypes; they were ITT branded.

Just now (perhaps I've seen this before, I am unsure) found a page on the Harris site for what I had seen a long while back. Perhaps others will want to chime in; be interesting to know more about what birds they occupy, and accessories and things...

RO® Tactical SATCOM Radio

Bland little things, aren't they? Almost remind me of some kind of Ritron rebirth lol

Anyway, if there are other discussions on here, I didn't see them.

 

[merlin]

Harris TAC radio, the little Falcon III

 

[vagrant]

If you're looking to purchase a solution I have used the Icom IC-SAT100 radios. They use the Iridium satellites. You designate your area and pay the plan. I would not say the Icom option is "tactical" though. They also have an "Extreme" handheld and a mobile version which also use the Iridium satellites.

Icom IC-SAT100

The IC-SAT100 operates exclusively on Iridium PTT, and is compatible with the full portfolio of Iridium and Iridium Connected® PTT products.

www.iridium.com

 

[keyhole]

Does anyone know if there is a plugin for SDR# that can decode Iridium?
Linux solutions are a bit “unwieldy”

 

[dlwtrunked]

Does anyone know if there is a plugin for SDR# that can decode Iridium?
Linux solutions are a bit “unwieldy”

There is not or a lot of us would have it.

 

[merlin]

It takes a lot of code to corelate frequency hopping, I don't see it in the future DSD+.
Alternate modes include direct digital spread spectrum. (Sheesh)

 

[thebaldgeek]

Running DragonOS on a Windows PC in a virtual machine is free and about 15 minutes to setup. The advantage of using DragonOS is that all the Iridium decoding tools (voice and data) are setup.
Have you seen the Iridium page on this site? Decoding ADSC, ADSB, ACARS, VDL2, Iridium, HF-DL and other aircraft type messages.
You may find this thread interesting as well: Thread by @thebaldgeek on Thread Reader App

 

[surfacemount]

DragonOS: Decoding Iridium Satellites with the Iridium Toolkit and an RTL-SDR

This has an ambe decoder. I can't find my dongles, or I'd already be on it.
Figured y'all would be way ahead on all this lol!

 

[surfacemount]

well
https://www.ebay.com/itm/134951871139