Solar storms spell trouble for GPS

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:49:46 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
wrote in
:


There a post about the age of GPS, I just pointed out that
it was commercially available and used in 1986. Our news
servers had some problems, your post was what I had visible.

Ah, I see. And your point is that GPS has been around a long time,
and you have heard no mention of anomalous behavior due to solar
storms. But if you look at the information in some of the links I
posted, you'll find that those who are intimately involved with GPS
operations have observed significant errors in various locations as a
result of changes in the ionosphere such as convective plasma
currents, etc.

I don't recall seeing any thing I wrote that should have
insulted you.

I wasn't insulted; confused.