[aprssig] GPS Interference

[Steve Noskowicz]

>From the "And you expected something else." Department:
 
" WASHINGTON—LightSquared's plan ... faces a setback as preliminary tests suggest the start-up's network could knock out some GPS systems."
 
DUH!  (with the usual inflection indicating  "well,  of course!" )
Get that "suggest"
 
" LightSquared's interference problems could ...create problems for ... its primary financial backer, Harbinger Capital Partners... [who] put $2.9 billion of assets into LightSquared... 
Harbinger ...investors have withdrawn money and regulators have probed certain of the firm's ..."
 
In a typical Arty Shaw German accent:
Velly Intelesting

-- 
73, Steve, K9DCI USN (Vet) MOT (Ret) Ham (Yet)
--- John L. Wilson wrote:






The attached link is to an article in today’s Wall Street journal.  Thought this group would find it interesting.  It covers some preliminary results of testing of the LightSquared wireless broadband network.
 
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303657404576359393184395736.html
 
Monty Wilson, NR0A
jwilson at ncfcomm.com
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