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- Path: sparky!uunet!netronix!mycal
- From: mycal@netronix.com (Mycal Johnson)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: GPS Availability
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <713814298snx@netronix.com>
- References: <7480107@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 17:44:58 GMT
- Organization: Netronix, Inc.
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- In article <7480107@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> myers@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM writes:
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- > 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.
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- Well actually because of the gulf war, the civilian GPS (unencripted) has
- its resolution cranked way up, still is last time I checked.
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- Seems that the US didn't have enough mil GPS systems, so it shipped the
- troops civilian units and cranked up the resolution.
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