On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:05:34 GMT, John T wrote:

Martin Hotze wrote:

Joint forcs? NATO? any other treaties? no idea.
maybe it is not hte Canadians who jam the signal .. no idea.

The Canadians are evaluating GPS devices for handling signal
interference/degradation/jamming. They will be jamming the signal in a
relatively limited area. The US isn't the one turning off the signal to
their country. This was apparent (at least to anybody with a modicum of
reading comprehension) from the very beginning of the COPA article.

The US isn't violating any treaties here and are continuing to provide the
GPS signal.

oh. sorry. there must be lost something in translation. *methinks* .. hm.
OK, AFAIR the question came up to: "but the Canadians/CAN airspace has a
small portion of airspace with jammed GPS signal" and I answered and meant:
maybe the CAN armed forces and US forces teamed up for a joined training,
or maybe there are treaties to help each other out (CAN--US).

You can snidely comment on their motives all you want, but the
fact remains that the US has borne the price of the GPS system entirely on
their own and make the signal available to the rest of the world in an

I don't blame anybody. I only stated that the system is a US (military)
system and that I won't use it for business use where I have to rely on the
availability. I haven't said anything else. Anything else is only your
interpretation.

effort to avoid another catastrophe like KAL007.

Yet another reason to hate America (or at least deride them), I suppose.

why?

#m

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