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From: roeber@cithe1.cithep.caltech.edu (Frederick Roeber)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Global Positioning of Scud launchers
Message-ID: <1991Feb9.031220.2004@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 9 Feb 91 03:12:20 GMT
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From: roeber@cithe1.cithep.caltech.edu (Frederick Roeber)
In article <1991Feb8.014206.18215@cbnews.att.com>, cl@ (Cameron Laird) writes:
> ...
> 1.  Iraq bought some number of US Global Positioning
>     System units within the last decade;
> ...
It was reported on comp.protocols.time.ntp that the GPS Global Positioning 
Service (the unencrypted, public access positioning service) was quitely
turned off ca. August 15 last year.  So only the military receivers work.

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