[Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

[Phil Kane]

On 6/21/2013 5:23 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:

> Somewhere back in the 80's [or so, memory fails me these days], I got
> several of the IEEE group Proceedings, among which were Info Theory and
> Vehicular Technology [my employer was doing a lot of the latter which
> involved me in a lot of the former].  I read one paper, from Japan I
> think, about this idea of having very low power radio sites that
> "portable" phones could talk to, and a computer control system to manage
> the hand-off to other sites as the caller moved.

Wow!  AT&T had cellular service (AMPS) under development in 1979 and put
the first system on the air in 1983.  What was the novelty that it had
to be written up in IEEE-VTS (I was a chapter chair of VTS in that
era)?  Was it that the Japanese also had it under development in that
same time frame?

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402
Life Senior Member - IEEE