Re: N.D. to Test Balloons for Cellular Service (OT)

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:23:41 -0500, Agent_C
<Agent-C-hates-spam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:30:55 -0500, The Ghost of General Lee
><ghost@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:23:26 -0500, Agent_C
>><Agent-C-hates-spam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:07:17 GMT, "Manu" <manu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Up to 20 miles above the earth, well above commercial airliner pathways,
>>>>steady stratospheric winds would push the latex balloons across the state at
>>>>about 30 mph. Each balloon would deliver voice and data service to an area
>>>>hundreds of miles in diameter.
>>>
>>>Could someone please explain to me how the typical 100 Milliwatt cell
>>>phone transceiver will be able to maintain communication with
>>>something 20 miles away?
>>
>>Easy.
>>
>>Line of sight.
>
>Any engineers among us that can confirm this?
>
>Sorry, I'm just a little skeptical. *20 miles*??? *100 Milliwatt*???
>
>A_C

I live along the Lake Michigan coast in MI and when we are along the
lake with the dunes blocking MI towers we have picked up WI towers 80
miles across the lake. How can I tell? The cell phone time goes back
one hour.
.

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