In rec.aviation.piloting Mxsmanic wrote:
writes:
That's like saying a Ford F-150 pickup truck can't be used as a ski
boat because Ford deliberately designed it that way.
Not quite. The GPS is a receive-only system. It allows users to determine
their positions without transmitting anything to anyone, which provides
stealth and also gives the system unlimited user capacity. There isn't any
way to get a transmission function out of GPS. All tracking systems are more
complex systems in which GPS merely plays one part.
This was all by design. The DoD wanted the capacity and didn't want their
troups to give themselves away every time they checked their positions.
Point totally missed.
GPS was designed to be a locating system, period.
The fact that a locating system doesn't provide user tracking or
warm up muffins is irrelevant.
The US military (and probably all the other major militaries) have
troop tracking systems.
And guess what, the tracking systems don't provide location data or
warm muffins either. GPS provides the location data.
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Jim Pennino
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