I'm in the NAVY and the ones we use and other nations use are very very accurate, civilian ones are out by a good distance and would not really be a good option.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Zac Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 3:48 PM Subject: Re: 1600 Speedo Law warning. Ammendment > I have studied GPS at university and have also heard tales of people > calibrating their speedos with them. From what I have been taught they would > not be accurate enough to calibrate a for just a home user using a handheld > unit but you might have had a more powerful unit and access to the military > band. > > zac > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Richard Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 12:58 PM > Subject: Re: 1600 Speedo Law warning. Ammendment > > > > So all 1600's can have MPH speedos? > > good to hear. > > > > I recently used a GPS in my 120y and the car was just about perfect > (speedo) > > with 13" rims with 185/60's on them. Those things are awesome for checking > > speed, very accurate I think! And of course I tried to max it out... > 148km/h > > with still room to keep going.... but ran out of road, not too shabby from > a > > 1.2 litre totally stock standard 120y > > > > Anyway I was just wondering if anyone else has used GPS to acuratly > > calobrate their speedo.... are they as accurate as they seem? > > > > Rich > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "tobias walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 8:51 AM > > Subject: Re: 1600 Speedo Law warning. Ammendment > > > > > > > I think a cop has got to be pretty bored to find a fault like that and > any > > > way I think you could argue quite well the car is too old for that and > I'm > > > sure he could find a few more faults in a car before he got that > desprite > > to > > > write out a ticket ??? > > > Toby > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
