On Jan 8, 2009, at 6:29 AM, Bjørn Mork wrote:
Marshall Eubanks <[email protected]> writes:
When I was working with Svalbard, Internet connectivity was through a
satellite link at about 2.5 degrees
elevation looking through a notch in the mountains. I don't think it
has changed
It has, as Steinar says.
For those interested in the necessary elevation at 78 degrees north, I
found a nice picture of the antennas here:
http://www.mydarc.de/la0by/isfjord.jpg
There aren't any mountains in front of the the antennas. However
there
is a mountain between Isfjord Radio and Longyearbyen (the main
settlement), requiring a relay station on the radio link between
these.
The NyAlesund SGO
http://siempre.arcus.org/4DACTION/wi_alias_fsDrawPage/1/107
is some distance North of Longyearbyen (how many places can say
that ?), and I used to have
a nice picture, which alas I cannot find, of the satellite link (not
the 20 meter dish in the picture) apparently pointing at the mountains.
It does indeed have fiber now, and has been used for eVLBI
http://www.haystack.mit.edu/tech/vlbi/evlbi/index.html
Regards
Marshall
Bjørn
