From: Mike Bingley (mbingley@telusplanet.net)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 11:18:29 CDT
Oh, cool....
Maybe I'll go buy myself a GPS then - finally. Though I'll still only use
it as a toy, I suspect, I worry way too much about becoming dependant on one
and having it go dead on me.
Mike
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On 7/18/02 10:03 AM, "Tom Corrigan" <thomas.corrigan@jhuapl.edu> wrote:
> Hello Mike,
>
> No they did NOT turn SA (selective availability = degraded accuracy) back on.
> As the FAA relies more and more on GPS, the chances of SA ever going
> back on are VERY small.
>
> Tom Corrigan
> Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Lab
>
> { I work GPS for a living. BTW-I took mine 2 years ago, and it DID come
> in handy :-)
>
>
> Thursday, July 18, 2002, 11:48:58 AM, you wrote:
>
> MB> Correct me if Iım wrong, but didnıt the government re-scramble GPS after
> MB> September 11th. If thatıs the case, then youıll never be able to get
> MB> accurate readings.
>
> MB> Mike
>
>
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