will GPS still work?

Brakanjan

Hi My company does animal and vehicle tracking with GPS. (www.yrless.co.za) Will GPS still work during this "war"?? The US can probably reinstall the signal error? We (and other companies in the world) might be screwed...:confused: damn Bush:mad: P.S. Probably not a good time to ask this question now that the Americans are still sleeping...

Taka Muraoka

Don't they just degrade the non-military signal?

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realJSOP

Yeah, but I bet the degraded signal also includes a bit more offset errors, placing you somwhere in a 5,000 square mile circle of where it says you are. ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends

Peter Pearson

In the Kosovo conflict, my GPS became super accurate - even though it was a civilian model - and that was before they stopped degrading the signal back in 2000. Cheers, Peter Pearson

Nic Rowan

I hope it still works... Otherwise navigation in my microlight is gonna be fun. I might just end up flying over Iraq. Oh well... Back to the "Pen-Paper-and-square-protractor-in-120km/h-winds-2000-feet-up" method. :)_

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David Cunningham

I belive that during the Clinton administration they took the power to degade the system away from the Military, and so I doubt that they would degade it's operation at all. Also, they have the ability to selectively degade the system (I have no idea how this works), but in 2001, they did this only for Afganistan. David

Anna Jayne Metcalfe

I doubt they'll do anything to the signals. Although the C/A code channels (civilian) is nominally nowhere near as accurate as the P/Y code channels used by the military, there's so many mission critical systems relying on it now (e.g. marine systems) that degrading it would have more drawbacks than advantages. Besides which, DGPS systems defeat the jitter and give better accuracy now than P/Y code anyway. ;) Anna :rose: Homepage | My life in tears

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Scott H Settlemier

I think that Selective Availability has been turned off.. http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/FGCS/info/sans_SA/docs/statement.html[^]

Jorgen Sigvardsson

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Mark Sanders

Since you guys are on the subject of GPS. The next time you are looking for a GPS Handheld checkout the Lowrance iFinder at www.lowrance.com[^]. :-D Mark Sanders

Stuart van Weele

I hope you are flying VFR in a microlight.

Brit

I read somewhere that GPS will continue to work. (Besides, if the US decided to make GPS unavailable to civilians during Gulf War 2, they would limit the outage to the Middle East.) ------------------------------------------ "What happened in that Rhode Island club is shocking. To think that over a hundred people would attend a Great White concert." - The Onion

Nic Rowan

Ya I am, but GPS helps a lot for cross country flights. :)_

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