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

Jason KG4WSV kg4wsv at gmail.com
Sun Apr 10 08:51:30 EDT 2011


On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:12 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?

Not quite.  The military uses two frequencies, so that atmospheric
distortion can be observed and compensated for.  This is one source of
the increased accuracy.  We only get to use the one frequency.

DoD would miss it as much as we do if it gets lost in the noise.

-Jason
kg4wsv




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