Re: GPS Avionics vs Lightsquared

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SO - who do we write ??? FCC commish ??

"Terje Mathisen" <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"> wrote in message
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> Alan Browne wrote:
>> On 2011-05-31 18:22 , HIPAR wrote:
>>> RTCA is a company that prepares requirements documents for aircraft
>>> communications equipments. They will soon report the results of FAA
>>> sponsored testing recently conducted at White Sands, New Mexico. An
>>> executive summary of the report was recently released:
>>>
>>> http://www.insidegnss.com/node/2628
>>>
>>> The report is expected to conclude:
>>>
>>> 'Based on tests of four FAA-certified aviation receivers — out of
>>> approximately 50 models now being flown on board aircraft in the
>>> national air space — and, the effects of a five-megahertz-wide
>>> transmission from a single-city base station deployment at the upper
>>> end of the LightSquared allocation “is expected to be complete loss of
>>> GPS receiver function.”'
>>
>> No surprise there. I doubt one could build a certified airborne receiver
>> that wouldn't get jammed by the LightSquared system.
>>
> For every month that passes without somebody at a high enough level
> saying: "Enough is enough!" and stopping this plan in its tracks, I get
> more and more amazed.
>
> Lately I've been thinking that the only possible explanation must be that
> Lightsquared is looking upon this a simple case of legal blackmail:
>
> "We have a valid license, but if you pay us enough we might be willing to
> reconsider."
>
> Just $1-$5 per GPS receiver currently deployed and sold in the future
> would be a nice windfall, right?
>
> Currently we're in the "Who blinks first?" phase...
>
> Terje
> PS. If this braindead plan actually gets deployed then I'll really enjoy
> knowing that the US is paying for a amazing navigation system that is only
> dependable outside the US.
>
> --
> - <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
> "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"