Subject:  (Lundquist) Iridium mobile phone system (fwd)
Date:     Fri, 12 Mar 1999 103018 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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Date: 12 Mar 99 09:06:58 MST
From: MARJORIE LUNDQUIST 
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Subject: Iridium mobile phone system

Some people may be interested to know that the Wall Street Journal for March
11, 1999, carried a report on page B1 describing how Motorola's Iridium system
functions.  To summarize, it performs well when the mobile unit is out in the
open, but very badly when it is inside a building or in a forest.  Apparently
the signal needs an unimpeded line-of-sight access to the satellite overhead,
and is easily blocked (by building walls, tree leaves, etc.).
I have been quite interested in the Iridium system because I have wondered
whether it may offer mobile phone communication that is safer for the user
than any of the smaller cellular phones now on the market.  (I don't yet know;
but I would not be surprised.) -- Marjorie

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