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1. 09:34 AM - Further thread on airborne weather services! (Morocketman@aol.com)
2. 10:25 AM - Re: Further thread on airborne weather services! (Wernerworld)
3. 11:37 AM - Re: Further thread on airborne weather services! (GeneHCO@aol.com)
4. 11:59 AM - Re: Further thread on airborne weather services! (Chuck Jensen)
5. 05:16 PM - Matronics Email List Web Server Upgrade Tonight... (Matt Dralle)
6. 08:55 PM - Re: Further thread on airborne weather services! (Sailor)
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| Subject: | Further thread on airborne weather services! |
Has anyone tried a CELL PHONE weather system with success or failure?
Primarily due to limited cockpit space, I am considering buying a new cell phone
with a larger than average screen and using Velcro to attach it to the panel.
Do you like/dislike your weather on the cell phone?
Whose service do you have/have tried in the past?
What problems does anyone see with it? i.e. Is it illegal to use cell phone
in an airplane?
What were the costs involved? Connection fee? Monthly service? Additional
minutes, etc?
Thanks listers, you are a walking encyclopedia of knowledge, Les Featherston
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| Subject: | Re: Further thread on airborne weather services! |
My experience is that it works ok on the ground, but good luck getting a
decent signal while flying.
I can never seem to get one above 2000 feet.
Russ
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Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 10:32 AM
Has anyone tried a CELL PHONE weather system with success or failure?
Primarily due to limited cockpit space, I am considering buying a new
cell phone with a larger than average screen and using Velcro to attach
it to the panel.
Do you like/dislike your weather on the cell phone?
Whose service do you have/have tried in the past?
What problems does anyone see with it? i.e. Is it illegal to use cell
phone in an airplane?
What were the costs involved? Connection fee? Monthly service?
Additional minutes, etc?
Thanks listers, you are a walking encyclopedia of knowledge, Les
Featherston
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| Subject: | Re: Further thread on airborne weather services! |
I have the same Cingular cell phone Pilot- My Cast weather experience as
Russ. OK on the ground; unreliable signal in the air.
Gene Holcomb
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| Subject: | Further thread on airborne weather services! |
The problem with cell phones in the air isn't distance from the tower
(you can be right over it 2000 agl and not get reception) but the angle
of the transmitted beam. Cell towers are designed and constructed to
issue the beam in a flat, horizontal pattern...after all, that's where
most people walking around are--on the ground. Once at 1000 agl or
above, reception is hit-n-miss, with a bias toward the latter.
Chuck
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[mailto:owner-rocket-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of
GeneHCO@aol.com
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 2:36 PM
I have the same Cingular cell phone Pilot- My Cast weather
experience as Russ. OK on the ground; unreliable signal in the air.
Gene Holcomb
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| Subject: | Matronics Email List Web Server Upgrade Tonight... |
--> Rocket-List message posted by: Matt Dralle <dralle@matronics.com>
Dear Listers,
This evening I will be upgrading the Matronics Web Server hardware to a new Quad-processor
2.8Ghz Xeon system (yes, 4-physical CPUs!) with an Ultra 320 SCSI
Raid 5 disk system and 5GB of DDR2 RAM.
As with the older system, the new system will be running the latest version of
Redhat Linux. Most of the software configuration work is already done for the
migration, but I still have to sync all of the archive and forum data from the
old system to the new system. I am anticipating about 2 to 3 hours of downtime
for me to fully make the transition, although it could be considerable less
if everything goes according to plan.
The Matronics Webserver will be *UNavailable* from the Internet during the work,
and you will receive a time-out if you try to connect during the upgrade.
Email List Distribution will be *available* during the upgrade of the Web Server,
and List message distribution will function as normal.
This represents a significant performance upgrade for the Matronics Web Server
and you should notice nicely improved searching and surfing performance following
the upgrade!
Best regards,
Matt Dralle
Matronics Email List Administrator
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| Subject: | Re: Further thread on airborne weather services! |
At 10:25 AM 7/31/2006, you wrote:
Forget it Les it won't work
harry
>My experience is that it works ok on the ground, but good luck getting a
>decent signal while flying.
>
>I can never seem to get one above 2000 feet.
>
>Russ
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:Morocketman@aol.com>Morocketman@aol.com
>To: <mailto:rv-list@matronics.com>rv-list@matronics.com
>Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 10:32 AM
>Subject: Rocket-List: Further thread on airborne weather services!
>
>Has anyone tried a CELL PHONE weather system with success or
>failure? Primarily due to limited cockpit space, I am considering buying
>a new cell phone with a larger than average screen and using Velcro to
>attach it to the panel.
>Do you like/dislike your weather on the cell phone?
>Whose service do you have/have tried in the past?
>What problems does anyone see with it? i.e. Is it illegal to use cell
>phone in an airplane?
>What were the costs involved? Connection fee? Monthly service? Additional
>minutes, etc?
>Thanks listers, you are a walking encyclopedia of knowledge, Les Featherston
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