[time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

[Rob Kimberley]

I have to agree with your comment here Said. 

Javad got into bed with Lightsquared and now things are not working as
planned he is throwing his toys out of the pram.

You have to chuckle sometimes at what goes on in industry!

Good to see there are still a few of us here in the real World.

Rob 

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of SAIDJACK at aol.com
Sent: 07 March 2012 03:38
To: time-nuts at febo.com
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

I'm sorry, but Mr. Javad is on crack.
 
A simple WAAS upgrade on a GENERAL AVIATION aircraft already costs about
$8000 fully installed.
 
This includes an antenna upgrade that I remember to be about $3000 installed
for the antenna itself.
 
$500 per plane to fix the issue? Yeah right. In what world does he live  in?
 
bye,
Said
 
 
In a message dated 3/6/2012 16:38:28 Pacific Standard Time, jdp3 at cornell.edu
writes:

The cost  of such retrofits is under $500 per aircraft. It would cost less
than $20M to  fix any existing issues within the industry and only take a
few months to  complete. Please also note that all existing GPS receivers
are semi-obsolete  and will soon need to be replaced anyway (with or without
LightSquared)  because current systems do not track the modernized signals
of GPS, GLONASS  and Galileo.


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