On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:09:17 -0800, the infamous "LDosser"
scrawled the following:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:15:23 -0800, the infamous "LDosser"
scrawled the following:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
news
The SARSAT satellites are in polar orbit--their coverage is not
"spotty".

Through thick clouds? g

Used to write software to read the USSR versions ...

I bow to your considerably deeper experience with it.

Turns out it wasn't so deep ...

Yeah, we all had entirely different versions of sats in mind. Hmm, was
any of us right? (one implied)

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