Originally Posted by
rampstriker
The thread search function is down now and I am unable to locate the superbly informative post from a satellite expert made here earlier today, but in it he said essentially that there is probably not a log of the earlier hourly Inmarsat pings. They are just written to an overwritable memory buffer and it's probably lucky the last ping had not been overwritten when Inmarsat searched for an MH370 record.
site search function has never worked for me and others have made similar comments.
use google but limited to this site,
take the standard url address ie the address for the thread and prefix with it search terms
<nyt site:http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/535538-malaysian-airlines-mh370-contact-lost>
<> remove them just there to stop text appearing as a link
can't recall who posted the info originally but from me many thanks.