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GPS Service Denial Testing?
On 2011.01.21 1:16 , macpacheco wrote:
On Jan 21, 2:40 am, Sam wrote: On 1/20/11 10:21 PM, Mxsmanic wrote: Because it's important to eliminate all backups to GPS, otherwise things become way more difficult for terrorists with their jamming and spoofing equipment. The same reason the FAA dreams of shutting down all VORs. Background http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LORAN#The_future_of_LORAN Federal Radio Navigation Plan http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pdf/frp/f..._Radionavigati... FAQ http://www.gps.gov/support/faq/ My opinion is Loran-C was a crappy system (mainly due to poor accuracy). For its time, it was superbly accurate and highly repeatable. It's only weak point was poor national coverage. eLoran (and differential Omega for that matter) were desperate cries from involved interests in dying segments. -- gmail originated posts filtered due to spam. |
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