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DocumentConfirmed1 May 2014 00:00 UTC

Inmarsat signalling-unit logs for 9M-MRO

Perth Ground Earth Station · 7–8 March 2014

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The raw-ish tables of channel, BTO, BFO and message type that underpin every arc on every search map. Released by Malaysia with Inmarsat explanatory notes.

Malaysia released a readable extract of the Inmarsat ground-earth-station log covering 9M-MRO from about 16:00 UTC on 7 March through the failed interrogation at 01:16 UTC on 8 March. Each line is a signalling unit, not a position report. BTO is a round-trip timing residual (after subtracting a constant processing delay); BFO is a frequency residual. R600 versus R1200 channels need different BTO calibration (notably a 4,600 µs adjustment on some log-on messages). Anyone doing independent path reconstruction is reconstructing from this table.

Sources

  • Explanatory Notes for Satellite Communication Logs, MH370

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