yeah there is separate military and civilian broadbands, at least there was back in January when i last did this sort of training. it may have changed in the last few months.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Darren Magor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 4:37 PM Subject: Re: 1600 Speedo Law warning. Ammendment > you are all pretty much write except the restriction as you call it has > currently been removed so the civilian gps's are in fact quite accurate. > however because the satelites are controlled by the us military they can > switch the error factor back on at any time. i'm also pretty sure that there > is no seperate military and civilian channels but i could be wrong. > > regards > > darren > > > > >From: "Zac Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: 1600 Speedo Law warning. Ammendment > >Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:47:50 +0930 > > > >yeah that is what I meant by the military band. the civilian band is > >purposely restricted in it's accuracy. > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 3:34 PM > >Subject: Re: 1600 Speedo Law warning. Ammendment > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > --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]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
