[aprssig] Terrestrial Threat to GPS Has Now Hit The MainstreamMedia.

[Earl Needham]

No, I had no idea.  How about giving us a rundown on just what frequencies
each listens for?

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Earl

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Rahn Abbott <whiskey7doa at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Ummmm, you do know that that US Military GPS units and your Garmin Etrex
> are not listening to the same radio signals right? You do know military and
> US government GPS runs on a completely different system?
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> *From:* aprssig-bounces at tapr.org [mailto:aprssig-bounces at tapr.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Earl Needham
> *Sent:* Saturday, April 09, 2011 2:16 PM
> *To:* TAPR APRS Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [aprssig] Terrestrial Threat to GPS Has Now Hit The
> MainstreamMedia.
>
> Yeah, but THIS time they're gonna affect a whole lot more than a couple
> hundred thousand hams -- they're gonna royally foul up the military (in the
> US), the new GPS approaches at many airports, hikers using GPS, and us.  Oh,
> and of course, all those owners of cars with moving-map displays fed by a
> GPSr.  I suspect the fan is about to get hit.
>
> Vy 7 3
> Earl
> KD5XB
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Steve Noskowicz <noskosteve at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> I don't know if any of these tell, but at least one manufacturer presented
>> data to the FCC showing this interference capability and they ignored it and
>> went forward.  I'll see if I can find that one agan.
>>
>> The term I used was: Infinitesimal wisdom.
>>
>> BPL. this, then the 440 band...  I guess you just follow the money.
>> --
>>  73, Steve, K9DCI
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On Thu, 4/7/11, John L. Wilson <jwilson at ncfcomm.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Date: Thursday, April 7, 2011, 7:35 AM
>>
>> > I found this article today.  It
>> > includes a video describing the issue and
>> > has links to other sources of information.
>> >
>> > http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=206519&#msgs
>> >
>> > Monty Wilson, NR0A
>> > jwilson at ncfcomm.com
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: aprssig-bounces at tapr.org
>> > [mailto:aprssig-bounces at tapr.org]
>> > On Behalf
>> > Of Stephen H. Smith
>> > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 4:30 AM
>> > To: TAPR APRS Mailing List
>> > Subject: [aprssig] Terrestrial Threat to GPS Has Now Hit
>> > The Mainstream
>> > Media.
>> >
>> > News of the terrestrial wireless broadband network that
>> > threatens to
>> > overload and block GPS receivers, that I posted about
>> > around a month ago has
>> > now hit the mainstream media.
>>
>
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