Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/04

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: New Aviation Rules
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 13:53:24 -0400

> My understanding--I'm sure I've read this in more than one place--is
> that at an airliner's altitude, cells over a large fraction of the
> country would pick up transmissions from the cell phone.  This would
> really screw up the system.  I also read that the prohibition is an
> FCC, not an FAA, regulation.

I don't believe that's right.  Cell phones typically only have a 1 mile
range.  I use one on my boat quite frequently, but more than a mile or so
off shore...it doesn't work.

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