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Re: Signal at high speed (was: Re: [NSW] Guards & Mobile phones)



On Sat, 20 May 2000 14:46:04 +1000, "Chris Downs"
<cvdowns@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>How significant is the Doppler effect in a train travelling at 83.3m/s
>(300km/h) compared with the speed of radio waves 300,000,000m/s (approx 1.1
>billion km/h)?
>
>Maybe the speed of moving from one base station to another and loss of
>signal strength has a greater effect?

I also suspect that this is the real cause of the problem.  In any
event, mobile phone performance from a TGV is very mediocre.