Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: hodge!rusty@uunet.uu.net (Rusty H. Hodge) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Cellular Telephone Causes Airline Fire Alarm Message-ID: Date: 31 Aug 89 23:25:15 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Hodge Computer Research Corporation Lines: 17 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 342, message 8 of 10 In article , ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes: > I'm skeptical about this article. The plane must have > been on the ground or else it wouldn't be answering the > phone call. Oh really? Radio waves don't travel up? :-> Although Cell Site antennas put the majority of their energy out in a pancake fashion, there is plenty of reflected signal. Have you ever listened to an FM radio while flying at 30,000 feet? You can hear stations from all over. -- Rusty "No Bugs" Hodge, 1588 N. Batavia St. Orange, CA 92667 Tel (714) 974-6300 rusty@hodge.cts.com [uunet zardoz crash]!hodge!rusty FAX (714) 921-8038