[time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

Rex rexa at sonic.net
Wed Mar 7 08:09:52 UTC 2012


There's also a few cars, trucks, emergency vehicles, hand-helds and 
timing receivers that he didn't bother to mention at all. I suspect most 
of those would be "fixed" by complete replacement. (If a full fix is 
even possible in all situations.)


On 3/6/2012 7:37 PM, SAIDJACK at aol.com wrote:
> I'm sorry, but Mr. Javad is on crack.
>
> A simple WAAS upgrade on a GENERAL AVIATION aircraft already costs about
> $8000 fully installed.
>
> This includes an antenna upgrade that I remember to be about $3000
> installed for the antenna itself.
>
> $500 per plane to fix the issue? Yeah right. In what world does he live  in?
>
> bye,
> Said
>
>
> In a message dated 3/6/2012 16:38:28 Pacific Standard Time,
> jdp3 at cornell.edu writes:
>
> The cost  of such retrofits is under $500 per aircraft. It would cost less
> than $20M to  fix any existing issues within the industry and only take a
> few months to  complete. Please also note that all existing GPS receivers are
> semi-obsolete  and will soon need to be replaced anyway (with or without
> LightSquared)  because current systems do not track the modernized signals of
> GPS, GLONASS  and Galileo.
>
>
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