GPS System "Close to Breakdown"

[gotta run]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/19/gps-close-to-breakdown

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[-cheeto-]

Just adds to the challenge…

[gotta run]

I look at it as just one more excuse I have when I can’t find a cache. “Yah, dem satellites were on the fritz, dontcha know?”

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[hogrod]

I read something a couple years ago about how solar flares are suppose to get much worse in the next 5 years effecting gps signal. That article also stated that all the newer satellites that have been put up are higher power & could handle this.

I don’t think we have much to worry about, they have been putting up new satellites every few years so unless something catastrophic happens this isn’t going to happen.

[gkrone]

No, it’s already happening!! I couldn’t get a lock closer than 20 feet last weekend!! 🙂

[labrat_wr]

@gkrone wrote:

No, it’s already happening!! I couldn’t get a lock closer than 20 feet last weekend!! 🙂

😆 😆 😆

Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.

[K0rpl]

@gkrone wrote:

No, it’s already happening!! I couldn’t get a lock closer than 20 feet last weekend!! 🙂

No, that was just me running my GPS Signal jammer at the WGA Campout!!!

[gkrone]

@K0rpl wrote:

@gkrone wrote:

No, it’s already happening!! I couldn’t get a lock closer than 20 feet last weekend!! 🙂

No, that was just me running my GPS Signal jammer at the WGA Campout!!!

I suppose you had it turned up to eleven.

[-cheeto-]

Now that explains why I couldn’t get a signal in the pavilion and what all that fancy equipment was REALLY for… 😉

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

I highly doubt our worlds military leaders would let the system fail.

[K0rpl]

Of course they would. They need to put more time into smoking in WI!!!!!

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