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

[gary]

Oh, they would have good filtering for THEIR GPS receiver. It;s just the 
rest of us suckers that don't matter.

I have a Trimble GPS antenna I never used due to the goofy voltage.

p/n 16248-50
patent 3984834

My recollection is they have a SAW filter in it. It is used by the Navy, 
though I suspect mine came out of Stanford.



On 2/3/2011 3:46 PM, Mike S wrote:
> At 05:54 PM 2/3/2011, gary wrote...
>> It only take a little radio knowledge to realize how stupid much of
>> what the FCC approves. The FCC raison d'etre is to prevent interference.
>
> I don't see any reason for people to get all excited. GPS is
> fundamentally a military system, and has very significant visibility,
> being used by _many_ more people than will use the Lightsquared system -
> civilian, commercial and governmental in addition to military. If, upon
> initial deployment, real world interference is an issue, Lightsquared
> will be shut down quickly. There's simply much more inertia, money, and
> constituency behind GPS than Lightsquared.
>
> I asked before if anyone knew the timing requirements for LTE, which is
> the technology this is based on. If it requires synchronized timing like
> CDMA, then Lightspeed would be shooting themselves in the foot if they
> were unable to use GPS based timing within their system.
>
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