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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Globalstar Telecommunications Limited GSAT -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jay Fisk who wrote (12365)	5/7/2000 7:48:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 29987

Yes, there is a definitive specification for operational radius. The standard Light-Year for Globalstar is the distance from Auckland to Sydney. If you get a globe and a little stick, a cotton bud with the end cut off to that length being a safe and effective British Standard Implement, and don't let the stick go outside 70 deg north and south, then that is how far the signal from a handset can reach to a gateway 90% of the time. Since the satellites are moving, if you are on the edge of coverage, the connection to the system is more fragile than in the middle of coverage [next to a gateway] where your handset will see up to four satellites, but usually only 3. The gateway in New Zealand [which will be near Auckland if they in fact build it] will just reach to Sydney with good connection. It will reach to Dubbo 90% of the time [more or less] as satellites come and go. Maurice PS: I suppose there is a url in globalstar.com somewhere and there are coverage maps showing the circles on a map in there.