 sm5w2
join:2004-10-13
St Thomas, ON
2 edits | You're telling me that the highly specialized antenna radiation pattern of cell towers is such that they *expect* to send and recieve signals from several miles *above* their ground-plane? Why would a cell tower waste their energy transmitting signals UP when their intended coverage area is within 100 feet (altitude) of the area surrounding them?
See this:
»www.physics911.net/projectachilles
Basically, you will probably always be able to make a call from a plane if it's at 2000 ft or lower, but next to impossible to get a working signal higher than 8000 ft.
All this talk of laws pertaining to cell phone use on planes is B-crap, because aside from take-off, landing and taxiing, cell phones simply don't work above a few thousand feet.
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