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Re: sextant without paper charts
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2008 Nov 11, 10:11 -0800

SPS - Standard Positioning Service -- the ones we civilians get. Accuracy 15 meters

PPS - Precise Positioning Service -- encrypted signal only for the US military, accuracy 2 meters.

Sounds like Scott was flying something with a US military logo on it...

Bill wrote:

Scott Owen wrote:

I could receive both SPS and PPS
signals so I always knew my position very accurately.


For those of us--at least me--that lug around a sextant and hand-held GPS,
could you go into more detail on the meaning of "SPS and PPS
signals?"

Thanks

Bill B.

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