[amsat-bb] Re: FM satellites

[Gordon JC Pearce]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 20:33:03 -0400
"Bob Bruninga" <bruninga at usna.edu> wrote:

> Again, this is my assumption, not known to be fact.  But the fact of
> cellphone LOAD after a wide area emergency totally blocking service is
> pretty much fact.

Surely that's true of *any* trunked system, though?  Once you've filled up all the traffic channels (or timeslots) it's going to start moaning about being busy.

You don't even need a disaster to do that - stand near a football ground just after a game finishes and everyone is coming out, and try to make a call.  The city where I live has just switched all their traffic wardens over to mobile phones - it's a disaster when there's any large event on.  The MPT1327 system keeps going without a blip... (well, except when BT cock up the tie lines)

Gordon MM0YEQ