[time-nuts] GPS Selective Availability. Is it On or Off?

Rex rexa at sonic.net
Sun Mar 12 12:58:25 EST 2006


On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 12:36:12 -0500, Chuck Harris <cfharris at erols.com>
wrote:

>SA was turned off to allow the troops in Desert Storm to use
>civilian GPS units (there was a critical shortage of military
>P-band units)
>
>It has never been turned on since.
>
>-Chuck Harris

Where did you get that notion? Desert Stom was 1991, wasn't it? What
happened in 2000, like this web page mentions?
http://www.cycc.org.uk/news/gpssa.htm





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