Re: OT Onstar equipped vehicle questions

Posted by buickanddeere on April 20, 2005 at 06:45:52 from (64.10.41.225):

In Reply to: Re: OT Onstar equipped vehicle questions posted by OldJohn on April 19, 2005 at 20:18:55:

OnStar does not up link to the GPS satellites. OnStar only receives location data from the 24 in service GPS satellites.Where the h*ll do people get the idea they are relaying thier phone calls through a satellite 200-300 miles up???
Portable Sat phones do exist but they require direct line of sight to the sky. Had to laugh at work. The dumb *ss engineers ordered Sat phones for Y2K incase the whole phone system failed. It didn't occur to them that radio waves in the Gigahertz spectrum. Are blocked by concrete and steel.
If using a Sat phone in public becareful you don't get surrounded, shot or beat up by a SWAT TEAM. The shape of the phone when held to the head is ok. However when unfolded and held in the hand. The phone looks like a pistil with a muzzle brake.
Onstar communicate with a 3.0 Watt analogue cellular signal from a high mounted unobstructed antenna with an excellent ground plain.
Last fall we were bird hunting way up north beyond any landline phones or electrical services. 40 miles north of town we had clear 100% communications from a hill top.
Even around here TDMA & GMS digital from a 1 Watt portable can be spotty. Depends allot on where you stand, facing which way and if your head or fingers are infront of the antenna absorbing the microwave signals. I tried to find an Analogue, TDMA & GSM phone but couldn't.
End of Analogue service? Much squawk from phone companies. The radio spectrum allocated if very full and congested. One space taken by an analogue channel/one customer can supply 3,4 or 5 digital customer sat the same time. There will always be at least one analogue channel left on cell towers for old cell phones that work on emergencies only. Or OnStar.OnStar could be upgraded with either a software upload or a module change to digital anyway.
Remember 2005 was to be the end of analogue TV signals and channels 50 to 69 ( if memory serves) were to be sold to cellular type service companies. TV channels were to be all High Definition Digital and crammed into channels 2 through 49. Isn't going t happen for a while yet. plus all the screaming about the poor having to purchase a new TV. BTW, most of the poor and welfare types have a bigger and better TV than myself. ( 16 year old 20 inch but it does have a
Yes, Big Brother can track you officially with a search warrant.Un officially you are tracked everytime you use a ATM card, Visa card, Interact, regular cell phone ( to within 1/4 to 40 miles), use an electronic toll booth payment or drive under highway cameras. If you have really ticked someone off you can be visually tracked by optical, thermal and "electronic anything" detecting satellite.
You lost the last of your privacy in the 1980's. And laws slipped through the system in a knee jerk reaction since 9/11. has signed away any expectation of any privacy or secure personal info.
Then again the notion of personal privacy or rights has been only a brief moment since the dawn of recorded time. And that's only in developed western nations from the early to late 20th century.

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