[time-nuts] GPS Selective Availability. Is it On or Off?

Magnus Danielson cfmd at bredband.net
Sun Mar 12 18:58:11 UTC 2006


From: Rex <rexa at sonic.net>
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] GPS Selective Availability. Is it On or Off?
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:58:25 -0800
Message-ID: <21o812lqml7dl24s3ijbnf2kcj1tkh480o at 4ax.com>

> On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 12:36:12 -0500, Chuck Harris <cfharris at erols.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >SA was turned off to allow the troops in Desert Storm to use
> >civilian GPS units (there was a critical shortage of military
> >P-band units)
> >
> >It has never been turned on since.
> >
> >-Chuck Harris
> 
> Where did you get that notion? Desert Stom was 1991, wasn't it? What
> happened in 2000, like this web page mentions?
> http://www.cycc.org.uk/news/gpssa.htm

The SA was enabled again after Desert Storm, and it was not until the
presidential order that it was turned off again for a longer period of time.

See this page if you don't beleive me:
http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/saoff/

Cheers,
Magnus




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