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

To: Andmoreagain who wrote (4787)	5/20/1999 6:17:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

Antennagain's the name of the game. The dirty great 1812 Overture cannon form factor of the Globalstar handset is the big problem at present. Clark and others have pointed out that the antenna doesn't have to be donkey sized, but efficiency is lost if it's smaller. ICO and the GEOs get away with dinky antennae on their handsets because they have huge antennae on their satellites. Check out these cute little things for GEOs. thuraya.com The Hummer Effect isn't going to cut it with Globalstar [for other than a few brutes]. Of course, some Globalstar handsets could be fuel cell propelled with ethanol which would double as a personal fuel source. The aerial could have rifling down the barrel and double as a gun for bringing down deer, pigs or Serbs [if the ground troops go in]. It could have a flat metal surface at one end for hammering nails or beating demonstrators. It could have all the Swiss Army Knife add-ons. Alarm clock, Web brower [Eudora-based money mover included], Digital Stereoscopic Camera, Ethanol Fuelled Cooking [sit the phone under a frying pan and hey presto, fish cooked in minutes or spit roasted small game], Vegemite Dispenser. This one would sell BIG. THAT would be a HUMMER EFFECT. John Stichnoth, I agree, handsets will become personal. The shared mobile handsets will use only about 10% or 20% of the minutes at most. But with phone boxes, the shared minutes could head towards 30% [just guessing]. I won't want anyone messing with my handheld Globalstar computer. It will have word processing, computing [small operating system] and private stuff. Computers will increasingly be a personal effect. With later constellations, Globalstar will be able to use teeny aerials [using BIG aerials on the satellites or cunning electronics to provide the oomph] and the loss of efficiency won't matter compared with the convenience of the user. Hopefully they can shrink aerials and handsets a lot for the first constellation. Maurice