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Re: How likely is a GPS shutdown?
From: Rodney Myrvaagnes
Date: 2000 Jan 25, 10:38 EST
From: Rodney Myrvaagnes
Date: 2000 Jan 25, 10:38 EST
This is not quite right, although the rest of RBE's post is right on. The military receivers that can get the encrypted (long) word get it over another carrier than that used by the C/A word decoded by civil receivers. There is no way for your Walmart gps to use the military code. During the Gulf War, SA was turned off because the military had to use civilian receivers. SA was an afterthought, applied because the civil receivers turned out to work much better than expected. On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 19:09:42 -0500, Richard B. Emerson wrote: > > > > I suspect that the military has its own encrypted version > > of GPS although this is simply a guess on my part. > >One of the absurdities of GPS is that during Desert Storm and Panama, >GPS' selective availability was turned off. Thus, for a short period, >the normally encrypted data segment (it's already there and used >routinely) was available unencrypted. Consider, too, the error even >with S/A enabled. A fuel-air bomb (or ammonium nitrate bomb) could Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjoa Senior Editor Electronic Products My oyster knife is Y2K compliant