[time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter
Raj
vu2zap at gmail.com
Wed Mar 7 11:16:30 UTC 2012
I'd accept if they replaced the whole worlds GPSes, it is a cheap option as they claim!
I'd like the latest model of smart phone too when you are at it L2!
Cheers
Raj
>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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