[time-nuts] GPS usable for weather forecasting?

[Jim Lux]

On 3/30/13 5:31 AM, Bob Camp wrote:
> Hi
>
> If you go back into the papers from the early 1980's there is one where they used a high gain antenna and no knowledge of the coding scheme to pull timing off of GPS. I believe it was at White Sands, but that could be wrong.
>


One can just run it into a squaring circuit and recover the carrier, for 
instance.  Recovering accurate carrier frequency isn't going to help you 
navigate a ICBM to a hardened target.  Knowing the P-code is.