[time-nuts] Lightsquared and a little math

Bob Camp lists at rtty.us
Wed Feb 2 18:13:23 UTC 2011


Hi

I'm sure their deployment is indeed population driven. You will still likely
be fine over parts of Alaska and Montana. Over the high density traffic
areas on the coasts - unlikely.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Chris Albertson
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 1:09 PM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lightsquared and a little math

> Let's see, a 13 mile circle is pi r squared = ~ 530 square miles.
> 40,000 times 530 is ~ 21 million square miles.
> Wikipedia tells me that the area of the US is 3.79 million square miles.

By the same logic, all of the office space in New York could not fit
in New York.  But it does because they stack it 20 or 100 floors one
on top of the other.

I suspect the areas will overlap with very dense coverage in urban
areas.  Perhaps in some places there is 50 or 100 channels of coverage
and in others one or even zero.

-- 
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Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California

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