Mission Code Search Tips
tl;dr I've mostly fixed this - but take a read just the same. (Spoiler - Tankers are on Iridium). I happen to be DMing with one of the #TwitterRandos about some C-Band stuff and they mentioned that KC-135T tankers don't show up on the global mission code table very often (if at all). Now, I would not know a T tanker from a Q tanker, but the observation was interesting, so I poked at my search a bit... The first thing to note is that before this DM exchange, my site only looked for mission codes on L-Band. See, they are all from L-Band, granted, they are from the different satellites as they come in live. But yeah, my site only looked for mission codes on the L-Band. But why thebaldgeeek? WHY only L-Band? History lesson. Many years ago, back when mission codes where first filtered automatically on the site, someone told me they only come from the ground dispatch side of things - they are a 'go fly this mission' sort of thing so they can't come FROM the aircraft. No...