[time-nuts] From GPS World - Lightsquared has been given the goahead

[paul swed]

OK the threads run long enough and time to clarify all of this for everyone.
See its all about business and cost.

Currently the GPS service is a huge reoccurring open ended cos. Now we have
convinced everyone else in the world that they have to have the equivalent
or better system there are at least 3 alternatives that are electronic.

So cleverly we will disable GPS by military testing and other services so
that overtime everyone will buy an alternative solution. But you may need to
know french or russian or ...

Then we can stop this silly endless drains of money and send it to useful
places like re-election campaigns or better the roadside mile markers every
1/10th of a mile.

We sure fixed the one alternate we had called LORAN and saved $36M year.
Said with humor.
So if we are going to sink GPS I had better continue working on wwvb
technology.
Regards
Paul.

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:22 AM, gary <lists at lazygranch.com> wrote:

> "The company, Lightsquared, has stated that it will work with the GPS
> industry to see which GPS equipment needs "filtering so that they don't look
> into our band.""
>
> Oh, so we get to buy new gear because they want to interfere. Perhaps we
> should turn the FCC into an engineering organization rather than a political
> organization.
>
>
>
> On 2/2/2011 12:17 AM, David J Taylor wrote:
>
>>
>>> http://www.gpsworld.com/gnss-system/news/data-shows-disastrous-gps-jamming-fcc-approved-broadcaster-11029?utm_source=GPS&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Navigate_01_31_2011&utm_content=data-shows-disastrous-gps-jamming-fcc-approved-broadcaster-11029
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Sounds like the "planning" folk here in the UK who allowed high-power
>> pager transmitters right next to a satellite space frequency
>> (135-137MHz), rendering part of that band useless if you were near a
>> pager transmitter. Except that stopping GPS working will affect rather
>> more folk than interfering with weather satellite reception.
>>
>> 73,
>> David
>>
>
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