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Proposed Mobile Internet Service Interferes With GPS Units
On Dec 16, 4:01*pm, iBoaterer wrote:
In article c5da4e8d-e5c5-4d05-afe7-
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On Dec 16, 1:12 pm, iBoaterer wrote:
In article 3354b9e1-e0d9-4342-85a6-
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On Dec 16, 12:21 pm, "Wilbur Hubbard"
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"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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BusinessWeek is carrying an article today that says that government
tests showed that the proposed LightSquared mobile service caused
interference to 75% of all GPS receivers tested.
The report can be found at:http://preview.tinyurl.com/7jyaazf
There is big money behind this. I'd recommend writing your elected
representatives and voicing your concerns.
It seems to me real sailors needn't be concerned about this at all. Who
needs GPS inland or very near coastal anyway where landmarks and
navigation marks are eyeball visible? Those who proceed down the
Intracoastal Waterway with eyes glued to their GPS readout are putzes to
be sure.
It also seems to me that where a clean GPS signal is most needed, the
commercial broadcast will not have the range to reach out that far.
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