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To: Rocket Scientist who wrote (5659)	7/15/1999 1:44:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

More Trees Rocket Scientist, yes, if the rest of the constellation had been up, I'm sure the multipath would have maintained contact under such a pathetic little tree. But my point remains, that it would not need to be a very significant tree to drop the call. Maybe it is tree or handset movement which is more important than the link budget because of the power control effect I mentioned in the previous post. Yes, I got guidelines on when a good satellite pass would occur. There was one at 6.35pm which was too weak to make a call due to a low angle. The one at 7pm was good, as expected, due to a high angle which means less signal propagation distance and less atmosphere [if atmosphere makes a difference]. With a full constellation, there will usually be three satellites in view, but in some places only two and these at a lowish angle, so the system is not going to be universally robust with respect to dropped calls when trees are around. Which is a LOT of places on this planet, despite the fears of some that trees are going out of business. The good part about Globalstar is the technology pathway to the future with a financially soundly based first constellation and handset type, unlike competitors Iridium and ICO. There will definitely NOT be any second Iridium constellation and a second or even first ICO system is looking unlikely. With the lead times, exclusivity of Qualcomm's CDMA for Globalstar, rapid processor and other developments, this is the very beginning of what should be a very rapidly successful system. Assuming we don't kill it with high prices to start. Prices can always be raised [which is the opposite thinking from Iridium people who thought that prices could be lowered if necessary]. Start low, create marketing mayhem, then raise prices until things are all in balance. Maurice <Feral Marketing Rulz OK!> Meanwhile, Clinton is working on reducing the USA GNP per capita by shutting down the space business with a thousand rules and putting heavy import duties on lamb. So, TWO FREE-TRADE LEGS OF LAMB WITH EACH HANDSET, is no longer an option. Luckily, The New Paradigm is roaring so well that even the best anti-trade and anti-free-enterprise and anti-capitalist efforts by the USA president shouldn't slow things too much. Maybe that's wishful thinking.