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To: Clarksterh who wrote (4380)	5/1/1999 12:01:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 29986

* This post is corrected in the next post - Link Margin Jargin * I'll leave it here in case anyone else who doesn't understand link margins gets silly ideas like this. Iridium has better connection than Globalstar! [I recall this earlier in the thread now] -------------------------------------- Clark, just a guess, but Globalstar connection should be much more robust than Iridium's. The handset will blast signal out through the concrete tile roof of a house like tissue paper. It has got to travel a long way with heaps of signal reduction with the square of the distance tiring the signal out every doubling of distance travelled. Over 1,414, at least, but usually more like 1,800 km, there are a LOT of doublings. So a handset in a building will blast much better through a wall or non-metallic roof than a terrestrial handset will do, because the proportion of the signal needed to get through the material will be relatively small. For the satellite signal coming back, I'm not so sure that the Globalstar handset will be as well off and you suggest not. The satellite signal down is weak and needs an open air handset but wouldn't the same argument apply as for the handset? Standing outside in the rain will mean there is a metre of pure water to be transmitted through whereas if they stand inside, there is no rain on their head and the extra 5 cm of building material [non-metallic] won't matter much compared with the path length and rain drop attenuation. Then there is the multipath advantage. Once the next lot of satellites is up, this advantage will compound because there will be satellite peering in all over the place. It'll be like having the Paparazzi after an image of Princess Di in the shower - it will be hard for her to keep them out of sight [and Globalstar satellites can see through walls]. Maurice PS: Thanks for Thatbitextra Andmoreagain. Just how many leaves does it take to equal 1800 km and a bunch of dirty, wet atmosphere? How about in autumn when the leaves are off? What about sending a signal through a window [not double glazed]? Trust you? But you said not to? Which of you do I trust?

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