On 2013/04/16 09:17, Åke Pettersson <76petters...@telia.com> wrote:
> Hello Jiri/Max,
> It appears that tracking by GSM is different in different areas, due to the
> GSM cover. One way to check this by testing GSM phones in the air. In
> Sweden, in urban areas, it seems that the phones can be used up to 500
> m/AGL, in low-density areas it can work at higher altitudes. In mountainous
> areas the covering seems to be better. In general, GSM is not reliable for
> tracking glider flights as the GSM cover is designed for ground
> operations. 

True.  By the way, SkyLines tracking often works even when the phone
(and LiveTrack24) doesn't, because it needs the net only for a small
fraction of a second.  There is no "handshaking" in our protocol, it's
just a single unidirectional datagram.

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