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- From: myers@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:21:14 GMT
- Subject: Re: Re: GPS Availability
- Message-ID: <7480107@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
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- > GPS.....That's on UTC, isn't it?
- >
- > Honestly, I've had my license for about 2 years...and every single
- > time I've heard the GPS thing, they have always said it wasn't operational,
- > etc....I don't think I've ever heard an actual report for GPS....Oh
- > welll....
- > That probably wasn't much help, but.......
-
- GPS is most definitely operational, and GPS receivers are now readily
- available, albeit with less accuracy than their military cousins. (The
- Feds require this to be so, so that some turkey like Sodamn Insane can't
- use our own positioning system to aim his Scuds to the nearest millimeter!)
- One of the biggest uses right now is in aviation - check with some private
- pilots in your area and see if they'll show you some of the latest avionics
- catalogs.
-
-
- Bob Myers KC0EW Hewlett-Packard Co. |Opinions expressed here are not
- User Interface Tech. Div.|those of my employer or any other
- myers@fc.hp.com Fort Collins, Colorado |sentient life-form on this planet.
-