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Julian Scarfe wrote:
> Have you tested the aerial coverage of the network? If you have, what were > your results? Are are you taking anecdotal evidence from usenet posts? In > which case, please summarize and/or cite them. Its totally anecdotal at this point, and probably will always be. I have a Palm VIIx on order and Ill be testing the palm.net service at various altitudes in the southeast, but Ill need others to report in with coverage results in specific areas. Just looking at the coverage map I can already see that at this point, mid-west coverage is spotty, and even California is only moderately populated with the towers. Palm.net service is supposed to be expanding but we obviously cant count on that. Thus the need for this entire project to be done on the cheap, or free. > Its an intriguing idea, but making a datalink work in the air is hard. Id > love to believe that its possible. I think it is, although were kind of bastardizing the weakness (strength?) of an existing service for our aerial use. Palm.net is not intended for this application, although theres no reason it cant be used this way. CBAV users seem satisfied (again, all anecdotal.) Will it work for everyone? Probably not. I suspect that those of us east of the Missippi would have good results. Some areas out west will work pretty well too, but there will be big gaps in the center of the country. I say screw the naysayers, though! Getting true datalink capability is expensive, more than I (and many others) want to spend, and if we can get 90% of the functionality for <1% of the cost of the certified (or portable) systems, I say we go for it. Of course, this thing might turn out to be a waste of time, and Im not promising anything... yet. Well see if this thing has wings or not. -Ryan |
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