[time-nuts] Lightsquared and a little math

[Stanley Reynolds]

Wonder if the clients of this network reduce power as cell phones do to increase 
battery life and reduce interference or they will use a dish on the fixed 
clients, not that would help with interference from the sat. The web site reads 
like the sat will distribute the internet signal direct to the clients:  
http://www.lightsquared.com/what-we-do/technology/ 


Stanley



----- Original Message ----
From: Chris Albertson <albertson.chris at gmail.com>
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Wed, February 2, 2011 12:09:07 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lightsquared and a little math

> Let's see, a 13 mile circle is pi r squared = ~ 530 square miles.
> 40,000 times 530 is ~ 21 million square miles.
> Wikipedia tells me that the area of the US is 3.79 million square miles.

By the same logic, all of the office space in New York could not fit
in New York.  But it does because they stack it 20 or 100 floors one
on top of the other.

I suspect the areas will overlap with very dense coverage in urban
areas.  Perhaps in some places there is 50 or 100 channels of coverage
and in others one or even zero.

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Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California

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