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Old 22nd Mar 2014, 17:55
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Originally Posted by sky9
Would such a signal frequency experience doppler shift if the aircraft was travelling towards or away from the satellite?
The terminal probably has to correct for doppler shift, because low bit-rate channels are very narrow; doesn't take much of a frequency shift to end up transmitting on or listening to an adjacent channel. There's a lot more flexibility in timing, which presumably explains why it doesn't try to correct for that.
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