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To: SmokingJoe

Starlink is perfect. Nothing Amazon puts together will ever convince me to change.


67 posted on 11/21/2025 7:31:32 PM PST by yldstrk
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To: yldstrk

Amazon is using higher Ka band they will have a smartphone sized ultra mini phased array set up. It’s 7 inch by 7 inch and 1 lb with 100 megabits per second. This is small enough to put in the top pocket of a day pack and trek around with it in real time. Every geologist in the field will have that set up bank on it. Starlink Mini is the size of a good sized laptop and heavy enough you wouldn’t carry it all day on your back. It’s due to the microwave frequency that it uses higher frequency tighter beams or smaller phased array for equal sized beams.

That ultra mini LEO dish is a game changer for mobile use. Set it on a dashboard anywhere world wide and you have a Wi-Fi connection for a 100 meter around bubble. Again field work , camping, treking, offshore boating, everywhere all the time. If you know what you are doing your smartphone will behave as if it’s in the USA everywhere on earth ,no international long-distance,no SMS fees, WhatsApp everywhere, Skype,FaceTime all of it as long as that little hotspot does device sees the sky your smartphone just works and Netflix too.

I love Starlink and wife knows Elon personally so I guess I do too via the Kevin Bacon method love the guy. However it’s physics and I will certainly have at least one LEO ultra mini phased array for mobile use probably two they will supplement the larger faster Slink minis.


76 posted on 12/07/2025 12:51:36 PM PST by GenXPolymath
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