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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: GPS accuracy in wake of Desert Storm?
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.203619.15088@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Thu, 7 Feb 1991 20:36:19 GMT

In article <39009@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
>Uh, I think what was objected to in the orignal posting was not
>discussing how GPS works and how accurate it is, but the request
>for how to get around limitations the military imposes for
>security purposes.
>
>That hasn't been discussed in IEEE journals and Sailing, has it?

Sure it has.  Maybe not in sailing, but in the IEEE journals and Aviation
Week.  There are plenty of potential Navstar users, notably the aviation
people, who badly need high accuracy and don't like DoD being able to
degrade their navigation aids without warning.  Those people have been
very interested in ways around the problem, and much has been published
on the subject.
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