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To: _Jim

Cellphones typically have trouble functioning properly above 10,000 feet. Tower antenna are not placed in a way for good support of that...they positioned for lower elevation support. If the cellphone has a direct line of sight to a tower that can improve the odds of getting reception. Personally I find it amazing that he was able to make a call at all there.


23 posted on 12/17/2006 10:13:49 AM PST by surfer
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To: surfer
Cellphones typically have trouble functioning properly above 10,000 feet. Tower antenna are not placed in a way for good support of that.
I'm really looking for a reply by somebody who can address specific "technical paticulars"; not really looking for a 'See Dick and Jane' or 101 level response. See, not all of us are just 'users' of this consumer-stuff; some of us have actually done system plannaing, run the propagation simulation and proceeded then to build-out those systemes ...
27 posted on 12/17/2006 10:21:55 AM PST by _Jim (Highly recommended book on the Kennedy assassination - Posner: "Case Closed")
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