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|I suppose it doesn't count in this discussion, but balloons
are
| aircraft. Cell phones work fine and are more reliable
than either
| ordinary VHF radios or CB radios. Typically we are at
tree tops, 100 to
| say, 500 feet. I figure people are allowed to use cell
phones in tall
| buildings and easily hit these altitudes.
|
|
| Ron Natalie wrote:
| Mxsmanic wrote:
| I know the FCC says you're not supposed to use cell
phones on an
| aircraft
|
| Actually, the FCC only says that for certain wireless
phone
| services. Not all of them have that prohibition written
in
| the regs.
|
| (even though recent studies show that such use does not
| overload multiple base stations, as the FCC originally
feared).
|
| It's less of a problem now that we've moved away from
the original
| AMPS (analog) cellular phone. However, the study you
are probably
| thinking about doesn't say what you are proposing. It
is talking
| about the Aircell guys identifying that THEIR airborne
use (which
| is not standard cellular) doesn't cause any untoward
interference
| to the ground based systems on the same frequency.
|
| However, has anyone tried it on small aircraft?
|
| The problem is that it doesn't work. Once we went to
much fancier
| digital systems and antenna systems designed to really
pack in the
| density, trying to hit them from over 1000 feet just
doesn't work.
|
| Handheld cell phones have never put out more than 850mw
when
| operating at high power (and they would use much less in
| a plane) and the modern digital ones put out even a
fraction of that.
| It's unlikely that avionics would suffer much.