N.O.A.A. satellites orbit every 108 minutes or about 14 times a day. The satellite scans a 5,000 kilometer wide area as it passes. The satellite is within transmitter range for about 10 minutes. If the transmitter is sending then the satellite will receive multiple messages from the swan's transmitter.
Because of the earth's rotation a transmitter at the equator would be scanned once a day while a transmitter at the pole could be scanned 14 times a day.
http://www.uen.org/swan/images/argosth.gif (http://www.uen.org/swan/images/Argos.gif)
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When the satellite passes one of three main ground stations, it downloads the information to computers. The computers then calculate the location of the swan and send the owner of the transmitter an E-mail message.
Perhaps if it is a satellite and the hatch is the electromagnetic station, then the satellite is a MagSat or supposed to be one. There were MagSat's launched in 1979 and I'm sure more before and after that. The satellite launch may have been part of the research project and may not have been just for monitoring magnetic fields but for changing magnetic fields. If the fields were altered, there may be severe consequences hence the need to keep the satellite over that location to keep the earth under control. If the numbers are latitude and longitude coordinates then when entered in sequence, the location is in the Central African Republic......which has a magnetic anomaly in Bangui, Central African Republic. (http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc99/pdf/5087.pdf#search='magnetic%20central%20african%20re public%20anomaly')
Not my theory... However very, very good!
Big Red
