Re: High flying blimps may be alternative to Direc in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r11690265 en Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:32:46 EDT Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:32:46 EDT Re: High flying blimps may be alternative to Direc http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11690265 Hayward :
said by TKJunkMail See Profile:

High flying blimps may be alternative to DirecTV's internet product. The US military uses balloons/blimps in Iraq and Afghanistan for communications and surveillance.
And they use them here to (ineffectually) propagandise Cuba as well
Problem with such technology though is it can only work in perfect weather... how many places is that true??? And even here where much of the year it is, though often to windy when clear... I doubt they are up more than about 50% of the time and mostly daylight hours where they can observe them and low flying planes can see them.
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»haywardm.com (Hayward's Key West) ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11690265 Tue, 26 Oct 2004 06:13:20 EDT Re: High flying blimps may be alternative to DirecTV http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11688350 Monster Rain : Blimps are the worst idea in the history or Broadband, I'm sorry :uhh:]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11688350 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:55:04 EDT Re: High flying blimps may be alternative to DirecTV http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11683395 BBWEST : How bout Bowel
Broadband over waterline ethernet link

Yeah thatll work

Or we country bumbkins can stick with
JSTP
Jack sh*t to Premises]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11683395 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:43:33 EDT High flying blimps may be alternative to DirecTV http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11683088 TKJunkMail : High flying blimps may be alternative to DirecTV's internet product. The US military uses balloons/blimps in Iraq and Afghanistan for communications and surveillance. »www.boston.com/news/nation/washi···_blimps/
Industry has been examining something similar in the US for wireless communications and internet access.
»www.apcmag.com/apc/v3.nsf/0/6C5D···00120D7A
But that’s not to say dreams of mega-speed Web downloads are over. Challenging Proteus for sheer audacity is the Stratellite, a giant airship that uses solar powered engines to sit at about 65,000ft, beaming data over a radius of about 77,700 square kilometres — think blimp meets mobile phone tower.

The Stratellite, which has been developed by a company called Sanswire, is 74.6m long, 44.2m high, and contains nearly 37 million litres of gas. Made of Kevlar, the dirigible is powered by electric motors and held in a position determined by six GPS units. In addition to Internet data, it can be fitted for mobile phone transmission, paging, fixed wireless telephony and high definition TV broadcasts. The downside is that the Stratellite can only sustain 18 months in the air without repairs.

It’s also cumbersome, but the blimp’s advantage over satellites is that it sits much lower to the ground, so it theoretically doesn’t suffer from the same data lag problems.
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