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From: David C
Date: 2020 Jan 7, 15:26 -0800
From: David C
Date: 2020 Jan 7, 15:26 -0800
While sitting in the car waiting for SWMBO [1] I was playing with the GPS Test Plus app. I noticed something unusual - the number of satellites in use was the same as the number in view. Usually in use is three or four less than in view. Then I realised that the Beidou satellites were in use.
For a brief moment there were 30 satellites in view but I was too slow to do a screen grab. I find it amazing that this was while I was sitting in a metal box. I hope that the proposed large constellation of interrnet satellite does not interrupt GNSS.
[1] SWMBO = "She who must be obeyed" from a BBC TV programme called Rumpole of the Bailey (as in Old Bailey).
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