On Jun 18, 6:08*am, Clair Johnston wrote:
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

Granted for 99.9% of the users GPS is an appliance. That other 0.1%
who are industry oriented analysts or, maybe, just enthusiasts care a
lot about the details.

Eventually, an open technical explanation will be provided. I'm
interested in its details.

--- CHAS