World Surveillance Group Inc (fka WSGI)

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Fantastic and vital services that our military is providing. I remember seeing video last week of people tuning in their portable radios that they had powered off car batteries.

While it would be nice for Sanswire if some future product did this instead of the C-130, it doesn't seem likely. This is considering the monumental problems of the 500 lb weight (actually less weight than that given the slower speeds involved), the antenna weight, the transmitter weight, and the power weight, plus the weight of the remote control gear to operate the console, the various transceivers and switching equipment that the crew is operating. I guess you can leave out the crew weight, but the last quoted payload capacity I heard for one of the proposed Sanswire products was 22 pounds or something. So it doesn't really look like Sanswire is feasible for this purpose.