[amsat-bb] Re: sat-com (figured I better change the subject)

[Roger Kolakowski]

My cellphone carrier can detect which direction my phone is pointed very 
accurately in a single location in my home. It shows on my internal 
mapping function and GPS is shut off. That to me means constant 
triangulation along with direction sensing within my android device...

If I'm in an accident that is good...if I do something illegal that is 
bad...

Not bad for finding north to orient satellite antennas though...

That to me is scarey in itself.

Roger
WA1KAT


On 3/27/2014 4:17 PM, Howie DeFelice wrote:
> "I bet (a small bet anyway) my cell phone carrier doesn't save receive
> frequency data accurate enough to determine what direction I am driving
> though."
>
> You are probably right since the doppler shift is pretty small ( at least I hope it is :) ) on a
> cellphone. The satellite access is MA-TDMA so the burst timing and frequency offset need to be tracked.
> This is a useful performance metric when troubleshooting connectivity issues in a big network.
>
> - Howie AB2S
>
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