I wouldn't say last resort... You're far more independent of external things breaking your link if your FOB has, let's say, a 2.4m flyaway X-band VSAT. The only thing you need is a reliable source of electricity.
Where I have seen tropo used is to establish a secondary or tertiary link to the nearest larger base. The US DoD spends an ungodly amount of money on a myriad of types of COTS and military specific geostationary SATCOM. On Sep 28, 2015 8:00 PM, "David Milholen" <[email protected]> wrote: > I know DOD will still use those older tropos for a last resort and in a > theater of ops the will deploy > what assets are need and other times anything available for deployment. > We had more than 4 ways of coms off of the FOB we were on. Not including > civilian sat. > > > On 9/28/2015 7:00 PM, Jaime Solorza wrote: > > yes do...... > > on other note....haven't hear much discussion of OTH microwave links > anymore. Still used or not? > > Jaime Solorza > Wireless Systems Architect > 915-861-1390 > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Jay Weekley <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Enjoy conversations with your dad while you can. >> >> David wrote: >> >>> Well, Given my dad gets to visit once a week at my place of work is >>> great. >>> I could not ask for anything better than having a good conversation with >>> my dad. >>> >>> >>> >>> On 09/28/2015 02:08 PM, Lewis Bergman wrote: >>> >>>> Damn, remind me not to take you out on the town if that is your idea of >>>> a good time ;) >>>> >>>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 1:51 PM, David <[email protected] <mailto: >>>> [email protected]>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Ok, >>>> Dad and I were having a discussion today about some historical >>>> microwave communications and my experience with the old tropos >>>> system >>>> the army had. Here is a link to what we were talking about :) >>>> >>>> http://www.radartutorial.eu/08.transmitters/Traveling%20Wave%20Tube.en.html >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Lewis Bergman >>>> 325-439-0533 Cell >>>> >>> >>> >> > > -- >
