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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: CNN & battelfield communications
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.040955.23149@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 24 Jan 91 04:09:55 GMT
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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)






In article <1991Jan18.003548.8604@cbnews.att.com> you write:
| >I was under the impression that when we attacted Iraq that all forms of
| >electronic communication would be jammed.  How is it that CNN was able
| >to do live broadcasts even during the actual raids ? 

garyb@hcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com (Gary Barton) writes:
| >From listening to their descriptions, I think it's clear that they had
| some sort of battery powered transmitter, perhaps even a small
| satellite uplink of some sort.

Subsequent comments on a CBC show indicates that the BBC reporters may have
had a low-capacity uplink: they could only use it outdoors at particular
times.  Several times they made it available to others when their
**apparently** more conventional communications channels were unusable.

--dave
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