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To: BobRealEstate who wrote (16830)	9/15/2000 11:35:08 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

BobRE, I suppose the cruise ship 'rewiring' is to connect the new Globalstar phones to securely-located outside aerials in the crow's nest or somewhere up high out of the way. There would be fixed phones in strategic locations around the ships, including the more sumptuous cabins [or suites or whatever they call the passenger sleeping rooms]. Maybe they would provide rental handhelds so people could roam around cities or take rural tours on stopovers in port and also have them at hand anywhere on the ship [sit on the deck with Globalstar phone handy in case the broker calls]. The phones just need power supply and aerial. I suppose they could use the Inmarsat wiring from the phone location to the external aerial, but they'd need their own antenna [if that's different from an aerial] rather than just use the Inmarsat one. I suppose the power supply could work for either phone type. There's probably a QUALCOMM url giving the dinkum oil. Mqurice PS: Globalstar and QUALCOMM have been working on the second constellation for years now. [Okay, at least 18 months]. But I guess it would be for 4 years in earnest. I guess they originally thought through expansion plans back in 1993. They would think like this, "Okay, we'll put up a 48 satellite system, which will get us underway. Then, if that's all going well, we could duplicate it at a lower altitude and later do one at 10,000 km orbit to cover oceans and poles. Okay, you people work out some orbit geometries and count how many photons we'll need. You can go onto satellite design after we test the first constellation and see how well it performs and how ASIC developments are going". In a presentation the CDG gave about a year ago, Perry LaForge, Irwin Jacobs, Craig Farrill and the Lucent guy had a bunch of charts and 384 kbps was scheduled for [I think] about 2004 based on a second constellation [if I remember rightly]. A second constellation is NOT news and people should NOT get excited about that, other than to be aware that Constellation1 is NOT going to be the end of the road. It is just an experimental beginning.