....yeah but GPS doesn't need an uplink.
So if you have an antenna of similar size and shape to one of those cone
shaped GPS antennas, how much tx power do you need to hit sats in LEO?
That's at least a hundred miles up isn't it?
------ Original Message ------
From: "Mike Hammett" <af...@ics-il.net>
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: 11/17/2016 11:53:49 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Space X, Satellite internet 1 GBPS, FCC
They won't need to be south-facing. With 4,000 of them, they'll be
everywhere going everywhere. I'd think like GPS.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
Midwest Internet Exchange
The Brothers WISP
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From: "Ken Hohhof" <af...@kwisp.com>
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 10:52:04 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Space X, Satellite internet 1 GBPS, FCC
Article says client side antennas will be phased array to track the
sats, also that the sats will communicate with each other.
Seems to me even with all those sats, talking about gigabit service to
customers is a bit of marketing hype.
Speaking of marketing, that would seem to be the key, how will they
market this? Unless the target market is the same people who bought
Iridium phones.
SpaceX does not have a natural existing marketing vehicle for Internet
service, I assume they will need partners or resellers. That is the
advantage a Verizon, AT&T or DISH has – millions of existing customers
they can advertise to, and offer bundle deals to.
Satellite does have a natural appeal to the “nothing on my house”
people, you can stick the antenna on a short pole in the yard. Still
not a great solution for the apartment and condo dwellers without south
facing balconies, they want indoor wireless modems. I am assuming the
LEO orbits will still be in the southern sky like GPS sats, maybe that
is wrong and they will whiz overhead in all directions?
From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 10:10 AM
To:af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Space X, Satellite internet 1 GBPS, FCC
I didn’t see what frequencies they are using.
Earth stations would need to track them I would think.
From: Tushar Patel
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 7:00 AM
To:af@afmug.com
Subject: [AFMUG] Space X, Satellite internet 1 GBPS, FCC
http://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-internet-satellite-constellation-2016-11
