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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!blackbush.xlink.net!scsing.switch.ch!news.dfn.de!server2.rz.uni-leipzig.de!news.th-zwickau.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CSC AK-47 Date: 6 Oct 1995 23:57:50 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <454c9e$eiq@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <43vnpp$m0k@bdt.bdt.com> <44pqfp$3m5@paperboy.owt.com> <44rk65$d0h@uriah.heep.sax.de> <451c7s$106@paperboy.owt.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 509) 735-0408 (Mark D. Smith <msmith@One World Telecom.> wrote: >OK, I believe on THAT side of the ocean, 1000 yards comes out to >be something like 914.4 meters. So the M1A and M1 Garands have a >packet size of 7.62mm and the AR-15 has a size of 5.56mm and all >are trying to transfer them out to 914m. As you can see, the signal >tends to be a little weak at that end of the range, er, cable. Umm, yeah, even though the CSC AK-47 might be throwing a lot more of data in the range below 500 yards / 450 metres, it will certainly become somewhat lossy in those long-distance tasks. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)