GPS Update
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 8:50 pm
I saw this in my morning AF Association update: "Empirical Backs Up the
Analytical: Data from testing actual hardware appear to confirm initial
concerns <http://r.listpilot.net/c/afa/68u70rc/2nu56> that a new 4G
wireless broadband network in the United States would interfere with the
Global Positioning Satellite signal, said Gen. William Shelton, head of Air
Force Space Command. "Although the data [are] still being analyzed, I would
tell you that the empirical data [appear] to be consistent with the
analytical data," Shelton told the Senate Armed Services Committee's
strategic forces panel last week. Accordingly, he continued, "we have
concerns" for civil, commercial, and military applications involving GPS.
LightSquared, a telecommunications company headquartered in Reston, Va.,
seeks Federal Communication Commission approval to establish the broadband
network, which would feature thousands of cell phone towers and space-based
augmentation. Those towers could disrupt the GPS signal, and testing of
LightSquared equipment at Kirtland AFB, N.M., with various GPS receivers
seems to confirm that, said Shelton during the May 11 hearing."
Jerry Folkerts
SR2500 #093
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Analytical: Data from testing actual hardware appear to confirm initial
concerns <http://r.listpilot.net/c/afa/68u70rc/2nu56> that a new 4G
wireless broadband network in the United States would interfere with the
Global Positioning Satellite signal, said Gen. William Shelton, head of Air
Force Space Command. "Although the data [are] still being analyzed, I would
tell you that the empirical data [appear] to be consistent with the
analytical data," Shelton told the Senate Armed Services Committee's
strategic forces panel last week. Accordingly, he continued, "we have
concerns" for civil, commercial, and military applications involving GPS.
LightSquared, a telecommunications company headquartered in Reston, Va.,
seeks Federal Communication Commission approval to establish the broadband
network, which would feature thousands of cell phone towers and space-based
augmentation. Those towers could disrupt the GPS signal, and testing of
LightSquared equipment at Kirtland AFB, N.M., with various GPS receivers
seems to confirm that, said Shelton during the May 11 hearing."
Jerry Folkerts
SR2500 #093
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