Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>> Geosynchronous orbit is roughly 22,000 miles straight up. >>> Your request has to go 22,000 miles into space, turn around >>> and go 22,000 miles... Actually, it's more like 22,400 miles straight up from the _equator_. The slant range from our neck of the woods (i.e. 42-43 degrees or so north latitude) is going to be significantly greater than that! I'll leave the exact calculations to someone else, but the point is that it's actually going to be a lot worse than Ben's already gloomy news. (OK, granted DirecTV/DirecPC's uplinks might be in south Florida or Colorado or wherever, but those latitudes, and ours, still have to be factored in... In any case, it's not a pretty picture...) I prefer a non-RF approach, generally speaking. One, I'm a ham and the noise floor on our microwave bands is going to get worse as time goes on, and second, it means that fewer people can listen in on my packets :-) Bayard ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
