[time-nuts] ok, newbie questions

[SAIDJACK at aol.com]

Hi Eugene,
 
the extra channels usually come on more modern GPS receivers that also give 
 you sometimes much higher sensitivity, much faster lock time, less 1PPS 
jitter,  sometimes WAAS/SBAS capability, and last but not least more 
redundancy and  better performance in environments with multipath.
 
Our FireFly units see 16 Sats and more typically at some  point during the 
day. A couple of those sats are WAAS sats, and these don't  count for the 
position fix. These modern GPS receivers use up to 2 Million  hardware 
correlators to track the sats.
 
In short, more Sat channels usually means a higher performance  GPS 
receiver is being used.
 
bye,
Said
 
 
In a message dated 11/26/2010 13:20:03 Pacific Standard Time, w2hx at w2hx.com 
 writes:

But I am  still academically curious about the impact of more channels of 
satellites?  What is the value of these extra sats?  
Thanks!