[time-nuts] GPS outage?

[Bob Camp]

Hi

My guess is that if GPS was down over the northeastern part of the US for most of a day, you would not have to check with TimeNuts. It would be on the evening news. Since your typical mobile GPS needs more sats than a timing receiver, they should drop out first. When the entire car / truck / bus / ambulance driving population of a couple dozen states all gets lost at once - you'll hear about it…..

Bob

On Sep 4, 2013, at 6:14 PM, Brad Dye <brad at braddye.com> wrote:

> Readers of my newsletter are reporting a strange interruption of their GPS reception yesterday -- mainly in the northeastern US but also in SC. This is my first day on this mailing list -- for a while -- so I don't know if this has been discussed or reported previously. Has anyone else noticed this? We are trying to find out is there was some sort of system-wide issue or maybe if it was local interference possibly caused by those GPS jammers that some of the truckers have been using.
> 
> By the way, my newsletter is mostly about Paging, and we use GPS/DOs to keep the paging transmitters (in simulcast mode) synchronized and on frequency.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Brad Dye, K9IQY
> Editor, Wireless Messaging News
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