[time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

SAIDJACK at aol.com SAIDJACK at aol.com
Wed Mar 7 03:37:49 UTC 2012


I'm sorry, but Mr. Javad is on crack.
 
A simple WAAS upgrade on a GENERAL AVIATION aircraft already costs about  
$8000 fully installed.
 
This includes an antenna upgrade that I remember to be about $3000  
installed for the antenna itself.
 
$500 per plane to fix the issue? Yeah right. In what world does he live  in?
 
bye,
Said
 
 
In a message dated 3/6/2012 16:38:28 Pacific Standard Time,  
jdp3 at cornell.edu writes:

The cost  of such retrofits is under $500 per aircraft. It would cost less 
than $20M to  fix any existing issues within the industry and only take a 
few months to  complete. Please also note that all existing GPS receivers are 
semi-obsolete  and will soon need to be replaced anyway (with or without 
LightSquared)  because current systems do not track the modernized signals of 
GPS, GLONASS  and Galileo.




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