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NEWS: World record GSM cell phone call from top of Mt Everest
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| Anon E. Muss 2007-05-22, 4:33 am |
| On Tue, 22 May 2007 01:13:15 GMT, John Navas
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><http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6676901.stm>
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> A British climber has set a world record by making a mobile phone
> call from the top of Mount Everest.
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> [MORE]
Sorry -- that connection was AMPS, not GSM.
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| John Henderson 2007-05-22, 4:33 am |
| Anon E. Muss wrote:
> Sorry -- that connection was AMPS, not GSM.
[follow-ups corrected in this version]
The Motorola Z8 certainly looks like a GSM/UMTS phone to me.
The summit is only 20 km from the new BTS:
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;98123975
John
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| Dennis Ferguson 2007-05-22, 12:33 pm |
| On 2007-05-22, Anon E Muss <anonymous@example.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2007 01:13:15 GMT, John Navas
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> Sorry -- that connection was AMPS, not GSM.
That's so unlikely. The base station was in China and there's no
AMPS service there (nor anywhere outside the Americas that I know of).
Dennis Ferguson
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| John Navas 2007-05-22, 12:33 pm |
| On Mon, 21 May 2007 22:26:01 -0700, Anon E. Muss <anonymous@example.org>
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>On Tue, 22 May 2007 01:13:15 GMT, John Navas
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>Sorry -- that connection was AMPS, not GSM.
Those connections were in fact GSM (not AMPS):
<http://www.cellular-news.com/story/23702.php>
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| Thurman 2007-05-22, 3:33 pm |
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> Those connections were in fact GSM (not AMPS):
> <http://www.cellular-news.com/story/23702.php>
I noticed he made a voice call and a SMS.
I keep waiting for someone to ask what data speeds he experienced. ;-)
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| John McGaw 2007-05-22, 3:33 pm |
| John Navas wrote:
> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6676901.stm>
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> A British climber has set a world record by making a mobile phone
> call from the top of Mount Everest.
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Yeah, but could he manage the same from the middle of West Virginia?
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John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com
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| John McGaw wrote:
> John Navas wrote:
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> Yeah, but could he manage the same from the middle of West Virginia?
Why didn't he just use Extended Range GSM, LOL.
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| tmoran@acm.org 2007-05-22, 3:33 pm |
| >Yeah, but could he manage the same from the middle of West Virginia?
I saw on the news that thieves took info from a store's unsecured WiFi
using a Pringles can as an antenna while they parked at the far side of
the parking lot. Is there any similarly lo-tech antenna to improve the
range of a cell-phone?
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| Simon Templar 2007-05-22, 10:33 pm |
| tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> I saw on the news that thieves took info from a store's unsecured WiFi
> using a Pringles can as an antenna while they parked at the far side of
> the parking lot. Is there any similarly lo-tech antenna to improve the
> range of a cell-phone?
Of course you can build an antenna for GSM or any other type of mobile
or cell phone. The only problem with GSM is the timing, once you get
further away from the cell you will encroach on another user's time
slice and you will be booted even though you may well have a good signal.
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| SMS wrote:
> Why didn't he just use Extended Range GSM, LOL.
Mt. Everest is kinda a bit far from the Pacific coastline just a tad west
of San Francisco where Extended (range) GSM is currently deployed.
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