I was flipping through the channels, and found a news piece that ended on the effects of GPS going off line, then said [paraphrase] "so if your GPS unit goes down in the next few days, this is why"
I missed the beginning. OK, so why would the GPS shut down? To deny Saddam its use?
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Re: GPS interruption
No shit. Only GPS units that work reliably are now Military GPS with theZoink wrote: I missed the beginning. OK, so why would the GPS shut down? To deny Saddam its use?
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In Iraq, accuracy is now within 300m. They can choose where they want to degrade the service now...Singular Quartet wrote:Yep, accuracy is now within 300m. Ain't it great?phongn wrote:AFAIK, they aren't actually shutting down GPS, but are decreasing the accuracy of nonmilitary systems elsewhere.
GLONASS, of course, will not be affected.
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Yes, I believe in most of the world GPS is unimpaired.
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In 2000 when they began broadcasting the military grade single to civilians, they also upgraded to allow for a regional, rather then world wide selective availability. However I think it's more likely that it's the whole Middle East that has educed civilian grade accuracy. The satellites cover pretty wide areas.
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