[MLB-WIRELESS] Mystery company offering wireless net services

[Tony Langdon (VK3JED)]

At 05:47 PM 5/03/2002 +1100, you wrote:



>Greg Campbell wrote:
>
> > I rang them today and they said its a satellite based system.
> > The pcmcia cards put out 5 watts into a quadrafilar antenna.
> >
>
>That's impressive - assuming 100% efficiency your sucking an amp out of 
>your PCMCIA card :-)

Hmm, a typical class C amp is around 70%, so it's more like 7-8W. 
:)  However, satellite is likely to be TDMA if it's 2 way, so it might be 
8W peak consumption, but at very low duty cycle and quite reasonable 
average power...

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