The directv antennae are phased array attenae as I understand it, and look up to the satellites.
I am suprised to hear that cell phones will work in a jet aircraft (1) due to speed of handoff between towers, and (2) lack of signal from and to the towers.
I am curious.
Anyway, Mr. or Ms. Rude's cell phone will not work at FL35 over the Kansas. Or am I wrong?
I'm guessing the directv is line of sight EHF on a 3 ais motor in a dome. We do lose it when we do circles. At any rate, when I accidentally leave my cell on during flight, my emal and voicemails pop up around 5K. Another guess is that I am picking up a tower really far away and not the closest tower.