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The launch schedule has changed 3-4 times since last year I believe. It sounds to me like the prototype is complete. I believe that we'll see a schedule sooner than later. I also believe that we'll see S1 launch this month. S1 hasn't been near completion in past PR's. It sure is now.
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Hell, if I was in their shoes...I'd be scared too. They had people leave their jobs to be apart of this...nobody here wants it to fail...which creates a VERY stressful environment.
I think if all goes well, the stock will shoot up then fall back 25-30% of the new high and level off...until it goes into production and revenue is realized...should maintain that level.
As for the news...its majority bad news...however the AMEX part is interesting....For a penny stock to get there...look for a 1-3 RS...maybe even 1-4.
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Rushing hell bent for leather into the AMEX maybe ain't such a good idea at this time. Let the horse really build up his power before you give him the bit.IMO
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I have been watching and waiting for this stock and if you look at what this idea could do it has a ton of upside. if they go to fast and stall out and make a bad product someone with copy this idea and make it work so I say let them get it right and watch the stock fly.
What do you guys think about sanswire it is down 18% or so today. do you think this will go up as fast as the gtel this could be a good buy right now.
one other thing the on sanswire web st it shows a photos of what it could look like and lets just say it looks like money to me.
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Dustoff, I'm with you. I think if they have a successful launch and test, then get a few signed contracts or so, the stock will go up to where it needs to be for the AMEX. (That's not that far off anyway unless there are alot of unforeseen barriers). They only have to prove the technology, not necessarily have the revenues or all the stratelites manufactured yet. "Build a better 2-way communication platform and they will come".
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I e-mailed Globetel and Sanswire Networks today asking about when we shold expect fotos on the site + production/launch update from Sanswire One. I won't be able to post the info on the thread if they return my e-mail however as there are legal ramifications if I do. I will give a + or - if I hear anything.
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Ok, I am registered but not apporved yet.. hence posting unregistered. but, I gotta share this.
I have been lurking all week here as I bought 5000 shares of GTEL last Thursday. It's my first time buying a stock EVER!
It was "recommended" by my brother in law and his dad.I did some DD, liked the Idea and bought, still wasn't sure until yesterday.
I have Vonage and I got their newsletter yesterday. In it they had a picture and article about the new WiFi VOIP phone they will be offering. UTStarcom F1000 Wi-Fi VOIP Phone
It Immediatley clicked with me, hmm... GTEL a communications company that is going to use stratelites to offer Wireless Internet Access (maybe as low as $29) and VOIP. Oh and look at this new handy dandy WiFi VOIP Phone.
I put 2 + 2 together..
Seems to me that a company that can offer Vonage type VOIP Service with Unlimited local and unlimited long distance for CHEAP$ and can service a wireless VOIP Phone anywhere in the world there is a Strat. It is going to give the current wireless providers a run for their money and make a killing, or said VOIP and wireless providers are going to want to be a GTEL Customer and GTEL still makes a killing. Either way, Copper Line Phones and Long Distance are Dead.
It was then I decided I was going long and that 5000 shares wasn't enough, I am trying to scratch out another 5000 before the AMEX announcement or the test flight...
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Zip_tar, sounds like you're off to good start. The stratelite, if successful, is about 1//7 the cost of a satelite, and will make communications many times faster (for broadband) because the distance is much less....I think you already got the picture though...GTEL could (if the technology is sucessful and they stay in front) put almost all wireless providers (of any kind) out of business or working as partners with GTEL. There are billions of people of this planet. Do the numbers...
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If they can't release a press release on time, how can they release a freaking blimp?
I'm sure things will be fine, but it is a little irritating that they didn't do what they said they would.
Hopefully they are waiting so they have good news to give, not bad.
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what are you talking about they released enough info with there financials...And the previous release which was after the sanswire update, saying they are scheduling for april 11 12 for plubic viewing... so HANG TIGHT.. next couple of weeks will be interesting.
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Did you all see the volume today ? Wow.....
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quote:Originally posted by crusader30: Zip_tar may never buy another stock in his life.
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Heh, Actually... I might. When I bought GTEL I was fully prepared to sit on it for a couple of years.
In doing the DD and reading allot of posts on this board and others. I find penny stocks fun actually. What advice would you guys give a flegling trader??
Once I get another 5000 GTEL. I'll set aside another $500-$1000 or so that I can play with it in my ameritrade account.
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quote:Looking for takeoff Inland sites targeted to manufacture personal airships 11:24 PM PST on Thursday, March 31, 2005 By PHIL PITCHFORD / The Press-Enterprise
Simon Scott aims to turn 100 years of transportation history on its ear by building a Buck Rogers-like vehicle that will do for flying what Detroit did for driving.
If Scott is correct -- and many have failed with the same concept -- we are just a few years away from scooting about in personal airships high above freeway traffic.
Commuters will take off straight up into the air from the work parking lot, enjoy a speedy and dirt-cheap trip and a near-silent landing at home, said Scott, a soft-spoken Brit.
Scott, whose Kestrel Aerospace Limited was formed about two years ago and employs eight people near Manchester, England, is in the area looking at several sites between Temecula and Redlands to perfect his flying machine. He expects to pick a location within two months and employ as many as 50 people within the first 18 months.
The company also is seeking $5 million from private investors to set up shop in the United States, complete development of the aircraft's propulsion system and certify a prototype for use in trade shows.
In addition to the challenge of financing the venture, it would also face the scrutiny of federal and state transportation and aviation officials.
Kestrel Aeronautical Systems Inc. Simon Scott, managing director of Kestrel Aerospace, is trying to develop a flying personal-commuter vehicle.
Scott, 37, is one of the latest entrants in a 50-year race to bring personal aviation to the masses. A handful of developers share the same goal: to help people with an interest in flying overcome the expense of acquiring and maintaining an airplane and hit the skies cheaper and easier.
"We're basically building a whole new aviation area," Scott said.
"It would open it up to a mass market, when it now is the realm of the rich and famous."
To date, however, the development history of the "personal air vehicle" has been spotty at best, with bold proclamations but not a product that can be mass-produced.
Many of the various iterations have looked a lot like a plane masquerading as a car, or the other way around.
Inventors from California to Israel are somewhere between the "pie in the sky" stage and actually building working prototypes, said Matt Grimason, a spokesman for the Aerospace Industry Association.
"I wouldn't call it something that is likely to come down the pike anytime soon," Grimason said. "But I wouldn't call it something that is completely off the chart either."
Kestrel Aerospace would not be the first Inland firm with designs on outer space.
Kelly Space & Technology Inc. in San Bernardino has worked on a reusable satellite launch vehicle at San Bernardino International Airport.
The company has more recently worked on developing alternative fuels, as well as a testing system for jet and rocket engines at the former Norton Air Force Base.
A 3-year-old Temecula company, AERA Corp., has booked Cape Canaveral as a launch pad to fly customers into space. The agreement is the first between the Air Force and a company that intends to take paying customers into space, military officials said.
Scott, however, said his company is more than two years ahead of others. He said the idea of flying your own "Back to the Future" vehicle is tough to grasp for some, but nevertheless is going to happen.
"It opens up aviation to the mass market. It could be as simple as taking a driving test to fly one of these," Scott said. "If I had the right amount of funding, I could build one right now."
To pay the bills until his flying car takes off, Scott is working under contract with a Florida firm that is building another unconventional creation: a blimp the size of a football field that serves as a floating cellular telephone tower.
The Sanswire Networks "stratellite," also under development at the former base, would hover about 13 miles above Earth, making great reception and broadband Internet access always available.
Scott's work on the stratellite's propulsion system employs some of the same technology that would be used in the personal aviation vehicle. The stratellite would be less expensive to launch and repair than a satellite, said Miles Denney, director of investor relations for Scott's company.
The key for Kestrel, however, is the aerial vehicle, which, Denney said, would allow anyone with $125,000 to travel from Temecula to Los Angeles in 23 minutes. Powered by a hybrid gas/battery engine that relies mostly on electricity, the vehicle will be quiet and safe, he said.
"We're right at that point in time where that stuff is possible," Denney said. "Most people see this as a lot of malarkey or science fiction, but it could be as big as General Motors over the long run." A closer look at Kestrel Aerospace's proposed "personal air vehicle" SUV, MEET PAV Cost: About $125,000 Range: About 1,000 miles Speed: 183 mph Powertrain: Gas-electric hybrid engine Online: www.kestrelaerospace.com
I can see the future now, we will all be commuting via our PAV's. Sure enough we'll get stuck behind someone in the "high speed zone" that is obliviously chatting away on their WiFi Stratelite Phone and tieing up traffic. There we will be in our blimps shaking our fists and giving the finger in what the press shall dub "Sky Rage".
Helium-filled airships eyed as spying tool Advertisement
JON VAN April 2, 2005
The federal government, which has done spy-in-the-sky satellite surveillance for years, is looking for something a little more down to earth.
People in the military and in homeland security would like surveillance platforms overhead at a distance higher than airplanes but not as far as space. They want helium-filled airships that could hover in one spot for a year at a time, watching the world below.
By perching closer to the ground, the surveillance equipment could get a better look at the goings-on below. Also, the airship would serve as a skyborne antenna and switching station for radio communications used by military, police and emergency personnel.
These communications/surveillance airships could be put in place over large urban areas like Chicago and above the nation's borders.
A team of engineers and scientists at Purdue University is working to make this happen within the next five years. Academic researchers will design and build models of the craft, and government agencies could contract with an aerospace firm to build the actual airships.
Building a giant, unmanned airship that will fly some 65,000 feet above Earth will require integrating a lot of existing technologies in ways that really push the envelope, said John Sullivan, an aeronautics professor who is co-leader of the project.
"Putting something up there and keeping it stationary is a challenge," he said. "You cannot do it with something shaped like the Goodyear blimp."
The airship, which could be as much as 900 feet long, will need to have photovoltaic cells on its skin to convert sunlight to electricity. It also will need to carry fuel cells that can generate power when sunlight is unavailable.
Computer scientists are developing models to determine the size and shape of the craft, as well as determining how much power the various systems will require to operate.
Existing motors and electronics needed to fly the airship and to support its surveillance and communications functions are too heavy and use too much power to be feasible, Sullivan said. "We're pushing for new, lighter-weight materials with greater energy efficiencies," he said.
To test some early ideas, the Purdue team has built one model that can fly at a few thousand feet. Graduate students and undergraduates are working on the project with faculty from a variety of Purdue departments.
"It's a lot of fun," Sullivan said. "Students really like it. We usually work on airplane design. Flying an airship at 65,000 feet is difficult, and it pushes the boundaries, but there are fewer complexities to an airship than an airplane.
"It's a fascinating project."
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The above article just re-affirms the heavy military interest in this. There is no one close to GTEL (prototype launch pending) in this field. With a successful launch..GTEL will dominate this market for a few years at minimum IMO.
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check out this story comes with pics of the hangar and frame of strellite.
Just to clarify the picture are old ones and are not of the new activities taking place. GTEL has said they will have new pictures out last week but have not done that yet.
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Good Morning All. Let's all hope that Sanswire puts out an updated strat schedule and releases some pictures of our long awaited prize. Maybe they worked some overtime this past weekend!
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They need to get back on track and post some kind of update...good or bad...they promised and now it is making them look bad. Has anyone emailed or called them?
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