Egypt ferry sinks

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Originally Posted by Kapitain

Yes but RAF kilnos moniters all satalites in orbit distress signals get sent to satalites.

on one trip from dartford to zeebrugge i done we had 7 distress calls 4 were in the pacific 1 in the irish sea 2 in the atlantic

Those calls were probably MF/HF DSC.... They skip all over the place.

EPIRBs have to be relayed by a coast station, as you obviously can't detect them from the surface.

And if the satellite was on the northbound part of its orbit (COSPASS SARSAT operates on a low altitude polar orbit), it's prettty understandable that Kinloss would be the first or second station in its path.