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Old April 8th 19, 01:09 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Martin Gregorie[_6_]
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Default Any date-related GPS problems seen today?

On Sun, 07 Apr 2019 19:18:24 -0600, Dan Marotta wrote:

Bet'cha the Russkys are doing interference testing, too...

On 4/7/2019 5:05 PM, kinsell wrote:
Sounds like you need a receiver with GLONASS capability as a
get-you-home backup.



On 4/7/19 9:43 AM, Dan Marotta wrote:
Not date related, but I live within the GPS interference testing main
location.Â* It's a real pain in the ass!

I understand that GPS is a military system and it's really irksome
that the FAA and maybe the rest of the ICAO countries rely on it for
navigation and ADS-B.

Oh, my (several) GPS devices were not affected by the epoc.

On 4/6/2019 8:27 PM, kinsell wrote:
The epoc-olypse has arrived.


My old Garmin GPS2+ still knows where it is.

However, this unit has never been left without good batteries in it. This
model has a soldered-in non-rechargeable coin cell that's intended to
keep its internal memory alive while you change batteries etc. and this
fails within a year or two if you leave the unit with no or dead
batteries. Don't ask me how I know this....

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