[aprssig] Anyone in Las Vegas - LightSquared Test To Begin Monday

[Wes Johnston, AI4PX]

Love it.... wish there was a "Like" button on here...  yes, if they crash
due to this, they have bigger problems.  Aviate, Navigate, Communicate .
Any other order and you fail.

Wes
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left.



On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 16:57, KA7O <ka7o at ka7o.net> wrote:

> Seriously - if a compromise of the GPS system can down a commercial
> aircraft, we've got MUCH bigger problems than this Lightsquared frippery!!
>
>
> On 05/15/2011 01:45 PM, Randy Love wrote:
>
>> One commercial airliner crashing due to this interference might not even
>> be
>> enough to get this squashed.
>>
>> WTF, FCC and FAA.. This is a *threat to life and safety* that Lightsquared
>> is doing here!!!
>>
>> Randy
>> WF5X
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 3:12 PM,<aprssig at k7ftp.net>  wrote:
>>
>>  If anyone on the list is in Las Vegas/Boulder City, might want to go out
>>> between 23:00 and 05:00 and see what it does.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/may/14/testing-new-wireless-network-cou
>>> ld-cause-gps-outag/
>>>
>>> "A warning for night drivers: If your GPS navigator gives out on you this
>>> week, don't despair. What you're experiencing is only a test of the
>>> emerging
>>> broadband system.
>>>
>>> Starting Monday, broadband developr LightSquared will start testing its
>>> planned 4G speed wireless network in the Las Vegas area. The test will
>>> run
>>> after midnight for several hours for 10 days, and if it works, Las Vegas
>>> could become one of the first U.S. cities to get on a super-high speed
>>> Internet grid that's independent of any particular service provider.
>>>
>>> But if it fails, government agencies warn that it could compromise or
>>> even
>>> black out the GPS systems in the area, rendering temporarily useless
>>> everything from your car's navigator to the systems that allow airplanes
>>> to
>>> come in for a safe landing."
>>>
>>> "Late last week, the Federal Aviation Administration alerted pilots that
>>> "the GPS signal may be unreliable or unavailable" within a nearly
>>> 300-mile
>>> radius of Boulder City, where the test transmitter will be located, from
>>> 11
>>> p.m. to 5 a.m. local time daily from Monday to May 27."
>>>
>>>
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