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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Globalstar Telecommunications Limited GSAT
GSAT 66.72+7.0%Dec 22 3:59 PM EST
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (16626)9/9/2000 6:15:53 AM
From: John Walliker  Read Replies (2) of 29987
 
Maurice,

But hang on John, if the nearby base stations [straight under the plane] can't see the handset, what does it matter if the handset goes at full brightness to reach a distant one that can see it.

The ones directly below will see it, but at a reduced signal strength - reduced enough to prevent power control from reducing the transmitted power as much as would happen at ground level.

Just one handset would probably make little difference, but lots of planes, each with hundreds of people over a city might bring a network to its knees.

John
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