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error503
4y ago
No, that's not what it means. The phone knows its location because it can receive the GPS signals. There is no 'sending' involved at all, GPS is receive-only. To 'beacon' something it needs a transmit radio. Traditi
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The obvious prevalent use case is adding a business / work line via your company's VoIP provider to your personal handset (or a company one, for that matter). I'm sure this is very common, and I have both done and supported i
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Accurate delay compensation is necessary to enable redundancy. IF you need multiple GrandMasters at different locations in the facility, using independent RFoF systems and antennas, they will have different GNSS delays, and that difference
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GPS is receive only, the phone doesn't talk to the satellites, which just broadcast their signal to everyone. There is certainly a new radio (& ancillary equipment & antenna) in the latest model to support this feature.
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It depends a lot on the terrain and specific area whether a typical VHF/UHF ham radio will work. The range is much longer than cellular, but it is quite LOS, and repeater/digipeater sites with good coverage tend to be at establish
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> And an excellent system involves collecting fare revenue from riders. This is far from self-evident. There are at least two ways to fund such a system (and variants within), and most systems are funded by a combination of taxes and use