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Old June 18th 09, 10:08 AM posted to sci.geo.satellite-nav
Clair Johnston
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Default Trouble aboard latest Global Positioning System satellite

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
The Air Force has identified the cause of signal anomalies for PRN01
and will attempt to work around the problem. If they can do that
PRN01 might be set usable this fall.

http://www.insidegnss.com/node/1573


While I'm really happy that the military provides the GPS for our use,
the announcements they issue read like a bad joke about military
intelligence. I've read about a dozen reports now that "a signal
anomaly has been detected and they think they can correct it", but the
reports all stop there. If they really know what is going wrong why
isn't there a proper explanation in that press release?

-wolfgang

Press releases are written by PR people without the technical expertise
to provide a proper explanation. I for one would prefer that the
engineers spend the time fixing the problem. Even educating a highly
skilled engineer on a part of a subsystem is time consuming, think about
what it would take educate a administrator or PR person. Why do we as
users need to know the details?

Clair
 

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