One commercial airliner crashing due to this interference might not even be enough to get this squashed.<br><br>WTF, FCC and FAA.. This is a *threat to life and safety* that Lightsquared is doing here!!! <br><br>Randy<br>WF5X<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 3:12 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aprssig@k7ftp.net">aprssig@k7ftp.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
If anyone on the list is in Las Vegas/Boulder City, might want to go out<br>
between 23:00 and 05:00 and see what it does.<br>
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<a href="http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/may/14/testing-new-wireless-network-cou%0Ald-cause-gps-outag/" target="_blank">http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/may/14/testing-new-wireless-network-cou<br>
ld-cause-gps-outag/</a><br>
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"A warning for night drivers: If your GPS navigator gives out on you this<br>
week, don't despair. What you're experiencing is only a test of the emerging<br>
broadband system.<br>
<br>
Starting Monday, broadband developr LightSquared will start testing its<br>
planned 4G speed wireless network in the Las Vegas area. The test will run<br>
after midnight for several hours for 10 days, and if it works, Las Vegas<br>
could become one of the first U.S. cities to get on a super-high speed<br>
Internet grid that's independent of any particular service provider.<br>
<br>
But if it fails, government agencies warn that it could compromise or even<br>
black out the GPS systems in the area, rendering temporarily useless<br>
everything from your car's navigator to the systems that allow airplanes to<br>
come in for a safe landing."<br>
<br>
"Late last week, the Federal Aviation Administration alerted pilots that<br>
"the GPS signal may be unreliable or unavailable" within a nearly 300-mile<br>
radius of Boulder City, where the test transmitter will be located, from 11<br>
p.m. to 5 a.m. local time daily from Monday to May 27."<br>
<br>
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