[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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