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35,786km above the equator. Equator is 6,378km from the centre of the earth, so GEO is 42,164km, or 26,200 miles, so not sure where 28,500 came from. > Then a
by iso1210 6y ago
35,786km above the equator.
Equator is 6,378km from the centre of the earth, so GEO is 42,164km, or 26,200 miles, so not sure where 28,500 came from.
> Then again, the mythical perfectly spherical radiation pattern dipole antenna that we base all dBi off of isn't a thing either.
It got knocked over by a spherical cow.
(I did have a colleague lose a satellite connection in Libya once which he blamed on a herd of cows. I think he aiming fairly low on the horizon to the east, with the disk near ground level, so I give him the benefit of the doubt)