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To: Andmoreagain who wrote (4412)	5/2/1999 9:34:00 AM
From: RMiethe	Respond to of 29987

Andmoregain-- I am not an expert in any of the technical issues that Qualcom and Globalstar management have covered. I just give my own personal readings on issues (having owned Globalstar for a number of years now and read far too much than I should have had to)--some statements I read here are misinformation or misconceptions, and I make comments on them. No one has all the answers to anything-- if I did, I certainly would not be working. So, to answer your question, there are many on this board who contribute and my comments are no better, and I hope no worse, than theirs. As the saying is: do your due diligence at all times. I do think that there is far too much minituiae discussed on this board, however, whose purpose I can't quite get. Just on the questions of does Globalstar work in a building? Of course it does. Someone posted here once you have to go to a window to make a call on a Globalstar phone. The answer is: Sometimes you may, and only in heavily buildinged areas. Just one point of misinformation then. I have printed some of the posts here about link margins and CDMA discussions and sent them to people in the satellite communications field. Almost all of the posts are wrong, or only partially right. So what do you do? Investors like me start worrying: Does the technology work, because you read that this part of Globalstar doesn't work under these circumstances, or that, etc. And then you find out that the posts are technologically wrong. For the technological issues, probably a doctorate in engineering is a good place to start. I have no such background, or even close to it. So, concluding: do your own due diligence, and get a good background in satellite engineering, or access to those who do have the background. A lot of the problems with the satellite discussions today remind me of the issues about cell towers and their technology some 25 years ago. Few understood the details back then, and it is obvious that that is the case today with satellites.