The Saga just goes on...! INFO only.
Rgds Ernie.
Lightsquared Returns With New Proposal For GPS Fix
October 4, 2012
The company asked the FCC to modify its license application so it can use its
5MHz of spectrum that haven’t caused GPS concerns.
LightSquared, the now bankrupt
This is one well documented example of an earlier unintentional jamming
incident.
_http://www.gpsworld.com/gnss-system/signal-processing/the-hunt-rfi-776_
(http://www.gpsworld.com/gnss-system/signal-processing/the-hunt-rfi-776)
Regards
Nigel
GM8PZR
In a message dated 28/07/2012
time will produce more date.
-Brian, WA1ZMS
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Behalf Of gandal...@aol.com
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 2:27 AM
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Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lightsquared questionfor SFO area
of precise time and frequency measurement'
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lightsquared questionfor SFO area
Nigel-
I remember that event. This issue I'm remotely dealing with now seems
to be
limited to a specific local
area bounded by a few km. So local QRM is possible. On Saturday the
techs
identify a 3rd
party vendor equipment problem.
THANKS!
-Brian, WA1ZMS
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Behalf Of Jim Lux
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 12:35 AM
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Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lightsquared
] On
Behalf Of Brian, WA1ZMS
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 6:43 PM
To: Time-Nuts
Subject: [time-nuts] Lightsquared questionfor SFO area
Does anyone know if there is ANY recent active Lightsquared testing
taking place in the SFO area of the US?
I'm dealing with a day-job issue with GPS clocks
On 7/28/12 1:32 AM, Said Jackson wrote:
We have about 25 different GPSDOs running from four cheap antennae on the roof
in Los Gatos right next to Hwy 17, and have not noted any unusual outages at
all, even during the recent solar flare.
I guess any truckers with jammers on hwy 17 pass by so
: [time-nuts] Lightsquared questionfor SFO area
Hi Brian:
Would you please let me know which antennas they will be using and if
this solves the problem?
Thanks,
Ron
-Original Message-
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Behalf Of Brian, WA1ZMS
Sent
Does anyone know if there is ANY recent active Lightsquared testing taking
place in the SFO area of the US?
I'm dealing with a day-job issue with GPS clocks in the Bay Area showing
GPS unlocked errors from 3rd party equipment.
-Brian, WA1ZMS
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 09:42:49PM -0400, Brian, WA1ZMS wrote:
Does anyone know if there is ANY recent active Lightsquared testing taking
place in the SFO area of the US?
I'm dealing with a day-job issue with GPS clocks in the Bay Area showing
GPS unlocked errors from 3rd party
On 7/27/12 6:42 PM, Brian, WA1ZMS wrote:
Does anyone know if there is ANY recent active Lightsquared testing taking
place in the SFO area of the US?
Very unlikely.. they've lost their experimental license.
I'm dealing with a day-job issue with GPS clocks in the Bay Area showing
GPS
Interesting that they use jammers. The guys on the ambulances just wrap the
antennas with the foil from burger wrappers or the like.
On Jul 28, 2012, at 0:34, Jim Lux jim...@earthlink.net wrote:
On 7/27/12 6:42 PM, Brian, WA1ZMS wrote:
Does anyone know if there is ANY recent active
I've had a graph logging on my HP3816A in San Jose. I see one big glitch
on 7/27 ~17:00 UTC. I don't know if it unlocked, nor if it was from
something received, or some jump in my hardware. Other than that one
jump, I don't see anything unusual over the last week or so.
There must be others
-
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Behalf Of Jim Lux
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To: time-nuts@febo.com
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On 7/27/12 6:42 PM, Brian, WA1ZMS wrote:
Does anyone know if there is ANY recent
; they are not reliable. I also
vote.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 17:11
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Subject: Re: [time-nuts] LightSquared
Chris wrote:
Actually LightSquared is an investment firm. They don't make any
technology product. The company is run by a banker. Had their plan
worked they would have ben in effect a radio wholesaler buying from
producers and sellers to retailers who would then sale to end users. They
: [time-nuts] LightSquared in the news again
It's not a technology company if it has more lawyers than engineers.
Mike
On 6/4/2012 7:33 PM, Eric Williams wrote:
Typical of technology companies that have more lawyers on staff than
engineers.
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Tom Knoxact
?
-Dave
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It's not a technology company if it has more lawyers than engineers.
Mike
On 6/4/2012 7:33 PM
10:41 PM, d.sei...@comcast.net wrote:
A law firm with a technology department?
-Dave
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To: time-nuts@febo.com
Sent: Monday, June 4, 2012 7:44:26 PM
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It's
From today's communications news (fair use):
LightSquared stressed its intention to deploy a nationwide 4G
wireless broadband network, during a meeting with Angela Giancarlo,
chief of staff to FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell. The commission
has some legal and policy responses it can take to
Lightsquared is like a cockroach every time you think it is dead it shows up
again.
Thomas Knox
1-303-554-0307
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 19:25:22 -0400
To: time-nuts@febo.com
From: charles_steinm...@lavabit.com
Subject: [time-nuts] LightSquared in the news again
From today's
:22 -0400
To: time-nuts@febo.com
From: charles_steinm...@lavabit.com
Subject: [time-nuts] LightSquared in the news again
From today's communications news (fair use):
LightSquared stressed its intention to deploy a nationwide 4G
wireless broadband network, during a meeting with Angela
...@hotmail.com wrote:
Lightsquared is like a cockroach every time you think it is dead it shows
up again.
Thomas Knox
1-303-554-0307
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 19:25:22 -0400
To: time-nuts@febo.com
From: charles_steinm...@lavabit.com
Subject: [time-nuts] LightSquared in the news again
a cockroach every time you think it is dead it shows
up again.
Thomas Knox
1-303-554-0307
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 19:25:22 -0400
To: time-nuts@febo.com
From: charles_steinm...@lavabit.com
Subject: [time-nuts] LightSquared in the news again
From today's communications news (fair use):
LightSquared
A law firm with a technology department?
-Dave
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To: time-nuts@febo.com
Sent: Monday, June 4, 2012 7:44:26 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] LightSquared in the news again
It's not a technology company if it has more lawyers
The FCC needs to bow to laws (physics) and properly protect the GPS
spectrum. Despite pretty colored charts on the wall, the actual
operation of some systems don't pay attention to the charts.
A friend of mine put a UHF tv station on the air many years ago, and had
the same problem, actually
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) LightSquared Inc. a venture of hedge-fund manager
Philip Falcone was teetering on the verge of bankruptcy Sunday as talks
with lenders to avoid going bust have faltered, The Wall Street Journal
reports, citing unnamed sources.
Reuters
Hedge fund manager Philip Falcone,
Hopefully liquidation will follow soon.
On 05/15/12, J. Forsterj...@quikus.com wrote:
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) A-- LightSquared Inc. a venture of hedge-fund
manager
Philip Falcone was teetering on the verge of bankruptcy Sunday as talks
with lenders to avoid going bust have
LightSquared Bankrupt, But Spectrum Void Still Beckons
May 15, 2012By: Alan
Cameronhttp://www.gpsworld.com/gps-world-author/alan-cameron-121
LightSquared, the company that mounted a powerful threat to GPS signals,
declared bankruptcy on May 14, after losing a
I wrote:
From today's telcom trade press:
The FCC said late today that the International Bureau is proposing
to vacate LightSquared, Inc.'s conditional authorization and
indefinitely suspend its ancillary terrestrial component (ATC)
authority in the wake of the National Telecommunications
Let's hope they don't pull a SCO and keep it going for 10 years. Zombies get
tiring.
On 2/15/2012 10:25 PM, Charles P. Steinmetz wrote:
I wrote:
From today's telcom trade press:
The FCC said late today that the International Bureau is proposing to vacate
LightSquared, Inc.'s conditional
From today's telcom trade press:
The FCC said late today that the International Bureau is proposing
to vacate LightSquared, Inc.'s conditional authorization and
indefinitely suspend its ancillary terrestrial component (ATC)
authority in the wake of the National Telecommunications and
http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/lightsquared-says-government-gps-tests-%E2%80%98rigged/211388
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This is worth reading:
http://www.rwonline.com/article/lightsquareds-travails-mount/50851
Burt, K6OQK
Burt I. Weiner Associates
Broadcast Technical Services
Glendale, California U.S.A.
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You might want to investigate Solyndra's technology, excluding
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Jose Camara camar...@quantacorp.com wrote:
I wish we'd get an itemized statement for our tax money,
You can. But the list is huge so they made a web site were you can
search for small items or get a summary so as not to have to read a
phone book sized document
Phillip Falcone was just on FOX News Channel being grilled.
To hear him tell it GPS interferance is all a political campaign by the
GPS industry. He said that LightSquared has set aside $60M for
interferance issues.
Somehow, that seems pitifully inadequate.
First LORAN-C
Now GPS
WWV and WWVB
Fox News may be Fair and Balanced, but their on air talent are not EEs.
http://www.gpsworld.com/gnss-system/news/rally-organized-protest-potential-gps-band-interference-lightsquared-12073
On 09/19/2011 11:32 AM, J. Forster wrote:
Phillip Falcone was just on FOX News Channel being grilled.
To
I never said they were.
And, this is no longer an EE story. It is now political, and has been so
for many months.
If it were a purely EE story, LightSquared would be bust, like Solyndra.
Another also-ran.
-John
=
Fox News may be Fair and Balanced, but their on air talent are not
You might want to investigate Solyndra's technology, excluding the politics. It
is not competitive today, however it is a low energy to produce product. That
is, it will produce the amount of energy it took to produce must faster than
conventional photovoltaics, which takes about 20 years.
My Cessna has a Apollo 2001 GPS receiver which was upgraded to a TSO C129
GPS Sensor around the turn of the century. It is likely this unit,
whose design
was approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (TSO) will not
reject strong
signals from LightSquared's proposed cell phone network.
For aircraft-related stuff you may send your official Navigation
Equipment Performance Variance Report form to your illustrious
president o'bama via the FAA Inter-Agency Regulatory Communications
Dept. All other non-military cases go to the FCC Office of Regulatory
Review. You must include
Right! Good luck!
Falcone said today that $60M had been set aside for this issue.
At $10,000 per 'plane, that fund will cover 6000 planes. Hardly even a
token gesture, IMO.
-John
==
For aircraft-related stuff you may send your official Navigation
Equipment Performance
Folks (on both sides of the political aisle), we're getting way off charter
here. Lightsquared has been discussed on the list in multiple threads ad
infinitum so let's give it a rest unless/until there's some actual news.
Everyone, please keep in mind that time-nuts has over 1,000 subscribers
FOX news just did a piece on LightSquared and GPS and the general. They
called the general gutsy and are asking who put the pressure on?
They used the analogy of trying to talk on a cell phone next to a rock
concert, BTW.
This story is rapidly growing legs.
-John
===
By the way the USG is so concerned with the LS pollution, that they are
conducting a WORLDWIDE survey of existing equipment/systems that would be
impacted by L/S, on the assumption that the modus perversion will spread
outside the US.
Lester B Veenstra MØYCM K1YCM
les...@veenstras.com
Embarrassing the way our democracy works!
http://www.ainonline.com/news/single-news-page/article/lightsquared-squabble-raises-questions-about-political-games-30697/?no_cache=1
Best regards,
Brad Dye
Editor, AAPC Wireless Messaging News
P.O. Box 266
Fairfield, IL 62837 USA
Telephone:
Accidents happens ... ;)
Last year the FCC accidentally sold the total block of frequencies
reserved for the USAF’s B-2 Stealth bomber
El 16/08/2011 18:39, Brad Dye escribió:
Embarrassing the way our democracy works!
Guys,
Yes, the games are political.
No, politics is not the subject of this list.
I've stopped being curious about things I can't fix.
Bill Hawkins
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LightSquared promises to replace satellite push-to-talk kit
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/27/lightsquared_ptt/
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On 07/07/2011 11:52 AM, Chris Albertson wrote:
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Bob Bownesbow...@gmail.com wrote:
“In the end, the laws of physics won out.”
Of course the laws of physics won out in a GPS Wold summary.
In the real world the FCC will figure that as long as car navigation
GPS
I just had a phone conversation with someone who said she was a reporter
for the NY Post
about the comment I put in at the FCC regarding the Lightsquared report.
I told her I heard about the issue at time-nuts.
Chris
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and
IMHO, it's the new age of the robber barons. Paying for content is one
thing, paying a government granted monopoly for use of the transmission
medium is another. There is no effective competition if the bandwidth
is sold to the highest bidder, locking out competition. Comparable to
the great land
And when do you think the old age of the robber barons ended?
Steve
On 1 July 2011 18:05, Don Latham d...@montana.com wrote:
IMHO, it's the new age of the robber barons. Paying for content is one
thing, paying a government granted monopoly for use of the transmission
medium is another. There
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 03:29:49PM -0700, J. Forster wrote:
If over-the-air TV were abolished, that would leave all broadcast media
in
the hands of Comcast and Verizon and their $100+ charges.
Broadcast TV will never go away... far too important to the
political class as a place for
Has anyone read this?
The high-precision user is going to be thrown under the bus because
we are the most difficult to accommodate (technically) and don’t have
a high profile nor are perceived as significant enough to accommodate.
Subject: [time-nuts] Lightsquared
Has anyone read this?
The high-precision user is going to be thrown under the bus because we are
the most difficult to accommodate (technically) and don't have a high
profile nor are perceived as significant enough to accommodate.
http://www.gpsworld.com/survey
http://www.gpsworld.com/gnss-system/lightsquared-goes-global-glonass-galileo
-may-be-risk-too-11822?utm_source=GPSutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=GNSS-Des
ign_06_29_2011utm_content=lightsquared-goes-global-glonass-galileo-may-be-r
isk-too-11822
Seems like no one is safe from this!
Rob K
Mark my words, it will be down to who has the deepest pockets, and the best
representation from the lobyist's, in how this goes. The congress is
ignorant to technical issues, and they will force the FCC to follow along.
It will go down that it was for the greater good, or something similar.
The NLRB / Boeing decision was an obscenity. If it stands, Boeing will
move offshore in due time.
YMMV,
-John
=
Mark my words, it will be down to who has the deepest pockets, and the
best
representation from the lobyist's, in how this goes. The congress is
ignorant to
They already did, some time ago, at least for much of their engineering.
I spent six years with them (and I'm told I did good to last that long),
so I speak from (bitter) experience.
--They used to make much of their own avionics for flight controls and
instrumentation. No more.
.
From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of
Bruce Lane [kyr...@bluefeathertech.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 11:45 AM
To: time-nuts@febo.com
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lightsquared goes Global...
Seems to me such an issue only increases the chance
: Will Matney xfor...@citynet.net
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Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
time-nuts@febo.com
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lightsquared goes Global...
Mark
time-nuts@febo.com
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lightsquared goes Global...
Years ago, microsoft wanted to take over one of the ham bands, 2m or 440 I
forget which, for satellites for internet in poor areas.
Swatch wanted to have everyone change to beats instead of seconds and minutes.
Stupid
...@elec-solutions.com
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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:09:06
To: li...@lazygranch.com; Discussion of precise time and frequency
measurementtime-nuts@febo.com
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lightsquared goes Global...
Scratching the ole head. TVs a waste? A comment on the editorial content
perhaps?
But then how does any of that really
, 2011 3:45:10 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lightsquared goes Global...
Terrestrial TV simply cannot use all the bandwidth it is allotted. Spectrum has
been whittled away at least twice. Once to create T-band. Again a little bit
when HDTV was rolled out. The band needs to be trimmed with a sawzall
: Thursday, June 30, 2011 12:42 PM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lightsquared goes Global...
That is the white space plan. It is still active. It is an attempt to use
wasted TV bandwidth.
TV bandwidth is a waste. It is not a growing business
Probably because it was UPS, and it was the successful removal of the
220MHz ham band from the hams. As far as I know, the band is still unused.
They found it was more cost effective to use the cell phone network.
-Chuck Harris
David VanHorn wrote:
This was not the white space plan, it was
and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lightsquared goes Global...
Probably because it was UPS, and it was the successful removal of the
220MHz ham band from the hams. As far as I know, the band is still unused.
They found it was more cost effective to use the cell phone network.
-Chuck
Half the band, anyway (220-222). And no, they never did make any use of
it I know of.
There are still quite a few repeaters and experimental modes being used
on the portion remaining to hamateurs (222-225).
Keep the peace(es).
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The Working Group final report on the LightSquared--GPS interference
issue has been released. You can download it using the FCC's ECFS
electronic comment filing system. It is posted in 7 parts totaling
1,035 pages:
From: li...@lazygranch.com li...@lazygranch.com
To: paul swed paulsw...@gmail.com; Discussion of precise time and
frequency
measurement time-nuts@febo.com
Sent: Thu, June 30, 2011 3:45:10 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lightsquared goes Global...
Terrestrial TV simply cannot use
On 6/30/11 2:26 PM, Charles P. Steinmetz wrote:
The Working Group final report on the LightSquared--GPS interference
issue has been released. You can download it using the FCC's ECFS
electronic comment filing system. It is posted in 7 parts totaling 1,035
pages:
ALso at
...
Bob LaJeunesse
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frequency
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Sent: Thu, June 30, 2011 3:45:10 PM
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Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lightsquared goes Global...
If over-the-air TV were abolished, that would leave all broadcast media in
the hands of Comcast and Verizon and their $100+ charges.
It amounts to a communication tax on the entire population.
-John
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 03:29:49PM -0700, J. Forster wrote:
If over-the-air TV were abolished, that would leave all broadcast media in
the hands of Comcast and Verizon and their $100+ charges.
Broadcast TV will never go away... far too important to the
political class as a place for
As some of us know, a company called Lightsquared used political
connections and campaign contributions to short circuit established
FCC procedures to obtain a band of frequencies for the cell phone
system they are developing. Thanks to their political manipulations
they were able to avoid
I do not want to minimize the threat posed to GPS by Lightsquared
(LS), but the post below (i) ignores the last 3 months of debate on
the subject and dozens of messages on this list, (ii) mis-states the
case against LightSquared, and (iii) ignores the FCC's leading role
in the fiasco.
LS did
I have recently done some side-by-side testing of a new PCTel antenna vs an
older Trimble bullet antenna to see if there was any degradation of GPS
operation. The PCTel had 26 dB gain and a sharp bandpass filter incorporated
that was 60 dB down at the the lower edge of the GPS band (upper edge of
Is it possible/interesting to design an antenna that has a low-angle cutoff
at 20 or 30 degrees? That probably won't eliminate many satellites that are
useful for timing receivers.
I'm interested in things like a Z3801A or a ThunderBolt. I'm assuming it is
not reasonable to replace the GPS
On the other hand, what can be said about the wisdom of engineers that
designed a product that cannot withstand any interference from adjoining
spectrum holders? It has been known for at least the last 6 years that
LightSquared's predecessor was going to occupy that spectrum with a land
based
Perhaps not in the abstract, but on-orbit power is severely limited, and
you can't get more RF watts out of a transmitter than you put in as DC.
Can you imagine the uproar if every GPS bird had a 10 KW transmitter on
board, powered bu a nuclear reactor?
The low received power is a direct
Hi Jason:
For more than a decade the best internet connection I could get was
2-way satellite. The major problem with that is the ping time which
approaches one second and no amount of technology will change it one
iota (i.e. it's determined by two round trips up and back to the
satellite
Hi John:
It's my understanding the the GPS system was designed by the military so
that the received signal is below the thermal noise. That means that if
you look for it with a spectrum analyzer you will see noise. It wasn't
untill the KAL007 shoot down that the goverment disclosed it's
Hi Brooke,
Could well be, but I know the system was severely constrained by satellite
design considerations. 30+ years ago, high power was simply not available
on orbit for long periods of time. The only real option is solar cells,
then as now.
-John
==
Hi John:
It's my
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Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 1:28 PM
To: j...@quik.com; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] lightsquared test in las vegas
Hi John:
It's my
Does the GPS world really have much to say about the interference if
LightSquared keeps their transmitters clean and out of the GPS spectrum?
I think the key idea is that the receiver can't build a brick-wall filter.
Even if the transmitter stays within their assigned band, a strong enough
I live in las vegas and drove to the coordinates given for the las vegas
lightsquared transmitter on three consecutive nights from 12 am to 3 am durring
there test period.
In my opinion lightsquared never keyed there las vegas test transmitter durring
the total 9 hours I was present, over
See
http://orbitrax.com/?p=4468.
I quote from there:
Things looked pretty bleak earlier this month for Lightsquared when
Senator Charles E. Grassley (R) Iowa wrote FCC Chairman requesting the
detailed release of all internal/external communications, including email
between FCC personnel
A... Poor LightSquared
My heart bleeds... NOT!!! :-)
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See
http://orbitrax.com/?p=4468.
I quote from there:
Things looked pretty bleak earlier this month for Lightsquared when
Senator
Hello, can I short my L^2 stock?
:)
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Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 1:39 PM
To: time-nuts@febo.com
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] LightSquared
Thanks for the replies,
I'de been searching internet for about an hour not finding much.
I finally did find some info same as the replies here.
Here are some additional links about the testing . The third link givs lat and
long.
Testing of new wireless network could cause GPS outages
ED ANDRIESKI / AP
By Karoun Demirjian, Steve Kanigher
Sat, May 14, 2011 (9:09 p.m.)
A warning for night drivers: If your GPS navigator gives out on you this week,
don’t despair. What you’re experiencing is only a test of the emerging
I love these corporate PR statements. They bring out the American flag, Mom and apple pie
when it is really all about The Benjamins!
LightSquared, which didn?t return calls for comment Saturday, says on its website
that it is simply taking steps to fulfill President Barack Obama?s dream of a
On 04/17/2011 12:45 AM, Charles P. Steinmetz wrote:
John wrote:
IMO, your crack about NTSC is unjustified.
IMO, NTSC color was a very elegant engineering solution to backwards
compatability. Without that, we could well be still watching BW.
The other contemporary backward-compatible
You always wind up with third best.
First best never comes,
Second best comes too late.
Almost nobody in 1960 had color TV. The first time I saw it was in the
summer of 1963, and the programs were in BW, commercials in color, in the
biggest TV market in the USA.
-John
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John wrote:
IMO, your crack about NTSC is unjustified.
IMO, NTSC color was a very elegant engineering solution to backwards
compatability. Without that, we could well be still watching BW.
The other contemporary backward-compatible solutions -- PAL and SECAM
-- did not suffer from the color
: Re: [time-nuts] LightSquared gets at least some political attention
John wrote:
IMO, your crack about NTSC is unjustified.
IMO, NTSC color was a very elegant engineering solution to backwards
compatability. Without that, we could well be still watching BW.
The other contemporary backward
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