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To: Oliver Schonrock who wrote (4002)	4/20/1999 4:56:00 PM
From: Rocket Scientist	Respond to of 29987

<I was concerned about power too, but is that directly proportional to bandwidth?> Someone else here can give a more scientific answer, but other things being equal permitted data rate is proportional to power. RF power can be effectively increased by higher electrical throughput (which has some problems, I believe, for a handheld device) or by having a directional antenna which amplifies the signal without requiring more power but has to actively track the satellite. Obviously that's hard to do in a hand held device, too. G* fixed terminals, I noticed, will have steerable, directional antennas.