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To: JMD who wrote (11594)	4/8/2000 12:36:00 PM
From: jim black	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29986

JMD: Sagacious observations and POTENTIAL advice(if only it were taken)...Would you be so kind as to either e-mail or fax a copy of your post to Jeanette Clonan VP/IR AND Mac Jaffray of LOR/G( remember Bernard corrected me and said it was ONE company)...Your comments make so much plain common sense that it is literally painful to see them ignored. I don't know how much advice /input/bitching you have done but I suspect(and they can correct me if I'm wrong) that Maurice and "7minutehorizon(V).man have sent them plenty of input as have I, (duh!) so maybe it will hit a tiny target of "aha!ism"( so it's not a word, you get the point) if it comes from you, another frustrated investor. Slightly off topic: Over the years I've consistently used Valueline evaluations as part of my own DD on sizing up stocks and companies...They've been right-on! with Qualcomm(they missed the size of the runup by a couple of parsecs), ATI before the VOD buyout by many months and old MFS Communications before that company bought UUNet and we all know WCOM story thereafter(though admittedly WCOM has not done so well this last year)...What I'm driving at is the report that came out yesterday that we can only pray is wrong and overly pessimistic. Three months ago their comments were MUCH more sanguine with respect to long term targets for LOR,i.e., up to $60-90/ share but now, blaming debt structure and uncertainty surrounding G, they post projections for 2003-2005 targets at only $20-30! while waxing , nay nearly swooning over the prospects of WCOM, SPOT, GMH, and GBLX...the only relevance to me and probably to all of us invested in LOR/G is that Valueline is very widely read, mostly by people like me who go the library to read it(~$600+/yr), and it is certain to have a deleterious effect on stock price over next few months at least for private investors...Sometimes I wake in the morning to go to the monitor thinking in silent disgust that only V* has had enough sense to get out...but still I hold on...forgive, please an early morning rant since there is no tape to watch and ulcerate over.....Jim Black PS: I have received so many comments of thanks for my tenacity and have developed a sense of friendship with many faceless posters to this board and sense(though not Catholic or Jewish) feel a certain sense of guilt at not openly confessing that I have a mean streak, to wit: I'd give a hundred dollars to have been there to see the look on the face, the daggers launched from the eyes of that here-highly esteemed recipient of the "7 minute time horizon remark"...if looks could kill, I suspect.

To: JMD who wrote (11594)	4/8/2000 1:31:00 PM
From: Ibexx	Respond to of 29986

Surfer Mike, Semi OTOTOT: LowJack Mike, I happen to have some personal knowledge about LowJack and like products. Despite the former's proven engineering cleverness, LJ has been less than a commercial success than expected, simply because - surprise! - many consumers do not wish to re-own vehicles that have been in the possession of thieves and thugs, however briefly. The same psychology may apply to your idea with G*, I thought. Regards, Ibexx

To: JMD who wrote (11594)	4/8/2000 4:23:00 PM
From: H. Bradley Toland, Jr.	Respond to of 29986

JMD, G phones are being designed for packet data service, e-mail and other data apps. Also, Qualcomm bought SnapTracks for their GPS apps. I'm not sure, but those capablilties will probably be in G phones too!? regards, bt

To: JMD who wrote (11594)	4/8/2000 5:07:00 PM
From: Drew Williams	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29986

Mike, I've been telling people in the security industry about using Globalstar for mobile security applications ever since I put my first few thousand nickels into G* about two years ago. My friends tell me LoJack works fine within its design specifications, but a) you have to know the car has been stolen, otherwise nobody will be looking for it, b) you have to have a pretty good idea where the thief took it, because of the limited range of the receiver the police use, and c) that somewhere has to be within the jurisdiction of a police department that has LoJack capability. A better system, in my humble opinion, would be based on the same kind of system we now use for monitoring home and business security systems. An in-vehicle system determines is triggered, so it dials a monitoring facility and transmits its location (GPS) and the nature of the problem. (This does not have to be a security problem, by the way. You might have just run out of gas.) The monitoring service, which will have access to a database of all the local dispatch services (and there are a lot of them) will dispatch the appropriate police to wherever the vehicle happens to be at the time. By the way, our company's basic monitoring charge starts at $24.00/month, paid annually. We have our own central station monitoring station, but most of our competitors subcontract that (or sell the contract outright) to some huge monitoring companies. Their wholesale cost is $5-6/month, which is marked up to around $30/month. So, there is considerable margin there to work with.

To: JMD who wrote (11594)	4/8/2000 6:21:00 PM
From: TShirtPrinter	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29986

Greetings Mike & all, That seems like an awfully good question as to whether QCOM would be able to change their Omnitracks (I know there has been a name change, just can't remember it <g>)usage to G's. If someone could please enlighten me. As I read literature on the plane coming home from San Diego I noticed in 1993 QCOM owned 49% of G. Today it's more like 7 or 9 %. Do I assume that *G is actually a brainchild of Dr. Jacobs and Viterbi ? Of course that's why I am trying to fit in the Omnitracks stuf. By the way, I met a bunch of you folks in San Diego at the luncheon. Surfer Mike, are you putting the plans in action for a meeting on May 9 th in NY ? Or don't we luncheon till we get 2,600% increases <g> ? See ya hopefully sooner than later. Tony