> Hello!
>
> Charles Christopher G Dolera wrote:
>
> > I thought the U.S. Department of Defense stopped degrading signals from
> > GPS satellites, or it "turned off selective availability." We're using
>
> Any idea when it was turned-off? Was asking cuase specs sheets I saw still
> has SA emphasized. Anyway, Do you really get the "with 15 meter accuracy?"
>
There was a law passed that mandated that the military would turn off SA
on May 1, 1996, but it was worded in such a way that the military would
have a way to legally keep it on. However, they finally turned it off
last year, May 2, 2000.
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