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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vipersan" data-source="post: 731842" data-attributes="member: 325666">Another simple experiment you can do to show how much coverage a global beam gets is this ..Take a torch and shine it onto a flat sheet of paper holding it at a fixed distance away ..to simulate the satellite in space ..Now Take a football and hold the torch the same distance from the ball as you did the flat sheet of paper ...Notice how the beam spreads and covers a greater area ...This Is an excellent indicator of how a satellite global beam works ...and shows that the weaker signals at the edge of the beams illumination area are usually considered 'fringe' reception areas ..The beam has further to travel at the edges and thus weaker in power ..rgdsVS</blockquote>