[time-nuts] GPS interference and history...

[ehydra]

GPS receivers work with very different IF concepts! There is no common 
frequency at all.

- Henry

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Burt I. Weiner schrieb:
> For many years the FCC has not allowed FM broadcast stations within 
> certain distances of each other where a 10.7 MHz frequency difference 
> existed.  Not exactly the same thing, but did show an understanding of 
> what can go wrong as a result of good receiver front end selectivity.  
> In AM and FM broadcasting there has also been required distances between 
> 1st and 2nd adjacent channels, only partially because of overload issues 
> but more so because of occupied bandwidth and overlapping.  I'm not sure 
> how much more it would cost to build GPS receivers with better front 
> ends, but I'm sure it would've priced GPS devices out of the hands of 
> many consumer level users.  The FCC under the direction of Congress has 
> made (allowed) some pretty stupid moves in the past bunch of years.  In 
> my opinion, the FCC has forgotten what their purpose is, and being run 
> by attorneys has made the situation that much worse as there are very 
> few attorneys that understand the un-revocable physics of the 
> electromagnetic spectrum.
>