[time-nuts] GPS outage?

[Brian, WA1ZMS]

John-

I agree. We all should/would have seen
even a minor outage. That's what makes the event from early this week a rather odd event.

I have personally observed GPS jamming events from truck drivers trying to prevent being tracked. But those events are very localized it seems and are well bounded.

I cannot speak for others, but I am on
a presumption/ theory for our vendor supplied gear that the GPS engines may not have dealt very well with SVN 4 being tagged as "not for use" on
Sept 3 & 4.  Just a theory from an RF guy since I have no other explanation why some gear had issues yet 99% of us Time-Nuts never noticed an issue.

Oh well......

-Brian, WA1ZMS

On Sep 6, 2013, at 12:23 AM, "John C. Westmoreland, P.E." <john at westmorelandengineering.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> Not to go off on a tangent here but are there 'time nuts' distributed
> around the globe in such a way as we'd know about an outage?
> 
> One good hiccup by the Sun and it could cause an outage - correct?  (
> http://www.spaceweather.com)
> 
> It wasn't so long ago we were told the Iridium 'Flares' were all that were
> left of Motorola's project and now you can go buy a phone here:
> http://iridium.com/default.aspx
> 
> Regards,
> John W.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Chris Albertson
> <albertson.chris at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> Can anyone estimate how many GPS jammers there are in the New England
>> area?   There just might be "thousands".  I don't know.
>> 
>> I think the reason most people are not effected is that most GPS user
>> are mobile and if they are near a jammer it is only for a few minutes
>> 
>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Bob Camp <lists at rtty.us> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> You could indeed deploy a few thousand gizmos and have a pretty
>> significant impact. I'm not at all sure that would be the easier task ….
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Chris Albertson
>> Redondo Beach, California
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