This is a spe­cialised ver­sion of CrapTer­mi­nal, cre­ated to make it eas­ier to pre­tend to be an Irid­ium 9601 satel­lite modem. But­tons have been added for send­ing frequently-used strings, and inap­pro­pri­ate options have been removed.

It is impor­tant to note that this is not an auto­mated pro­gram that behaves like a 9601 — it is sim­ply a basic ter­mi­nal app with some but­tons added to send com­mon 9601 mes­sage strings, and a but­ton to send a file’s worth of binary data as the con­tents of an incom­ing data packet.

This is a Java app, writ­ten for JRE ver­sion 6. It requires RxTx, a free ser­ial comms library for Java on Win­dows, Linux, Mac & Solaris. RxTx is not pack­aged with this appli­ca­tion — you can grab the lat­est bina­ries here. (The zip con­tains an INSTALL file which explains where to put every­thing on each plat­form. You must do this before run­ning Iridium9601Sim.)

Issues with this appli­ca­tion are tracked on my Man­tis server, which is open to any­one to sign up, report bugs and request fea­tures. Please report any issues you find!

Down­load

• Exe­cutable (Iridium9601Sim.jar)
• Get the source code from GitHub