[time-nuts] LightSquared (leagalese) vs GPS .. Final report

[Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R]

On 07/07/2011 11:52 AM, Chris Albertson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Bob Bownes<bownes at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>
>> “In the end, the laws of physics won out.”
> Of course the laws of physics won out in a GPS Wold summary.
>
> In the real world the FCC will figure that as long as car navigation
> GPS still work 85% of the time that is "good enough".     I bet they
> give LightSquared what they want except that they'll be required to
> keep a 10MHz offset for the first five years (about the life span of
> most consumer electronics)
>
>
>
> Chris Albertson
> Redondo Beach, California
>
> _______________________________________________
> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts at febo.com
> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
> and follow the instructions there.
>
The GPS coalition should make a TV movie about leakage from LightSquared
causing an airliner to crash.   Perhaps throw in an attractive young family
perishing on back roads because their GPS was shellacked.

BTW, Lightspeed makes headphones for pilots.  LightSquared is the GPS 
nemisis.

-- 
Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R     caf at omen.com   www.omen.com
Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications
   Omen Technology Inc      "The High Reliability Software"
10255 NW Old Cornelius Pass Portland OR 97231   503-614-0430