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RE: Operations: where are you going to sit?


From: "Mark Radabaugh" <mark () amplex net>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 23:53:23 -0500



For what it is worth, I believe that the use of cellphones in airplanes
is prohibited by the FCC, not by the FAA.  That is, the use of cellphones
in airplanes (in flight) adversely affects the cellphone system.  A
cellphone at a high altitude is visible in numerous cells, with conflicts
with the assumption that a cellphone will be heard (more or less) only
in one cell.

Now, about the use of other radio receivers and transmitters in airplanes...


And for what it's worth -- they don't work above ~3000 feet.  I assume this is
due to the design of the cell site antenna.   Not that I ever tried it in a
private plane or anything...

Mark Radabaugh
(419)833-3635
mark () amplex net






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