Re: [time-nuts] New Member GPS NMEATime Trouble

2020-04-18 Thread John Sloan
TG9AJR Juan Munoz mailto:tg9...@gmail.com>> writes: > But I tried the GlobalSat and cause issues with NMEATime that will Not > Responding and had to End Task. I did unplugged the U-BLOX from the PC and > put the GlobalSat instead. I’ve never used any of these devices on Windows - all my GNSS work

Re: [time-nuts] - LightSquared is back now called Ligado

2020-04-18 Thread Charles Steinmetz
Eric wrote: any of (a), (b), or (c) above will have a far better chance of generating a successful petition for reconsideration at the FCC, an injunction in Federal court, and/or legislative intervention than continued emails here. True. However, the item is already on circulation, so t

Re: [time-nuts] - LightSquared is back now called Ligado

2020-04-18 Thread Eric Scace
Caveat: I have not personally read LightSquared’s final filings with the FCC nor the staff recommendations to the commissioners. I’m relying on the assertions written in this thread for now. If one feels strongly that, based on the facts on record, the approval by the FCC will have all th

Re: [time-nuts] - LightSquared is back now called Ligado

2020-04-18 Thread Adrian Godwin
Some of the history is in the wikipedia article for Ligado. Sounds like someone with money to spend on spectrum wants to break into the market and will push until they manage it. Given that Obama invested in them I'm surprised the present administration isn't running them into the ground, but it co

Re: [time-nuts] - LightSquared is back now called Ligado

2020-04-18 Thread Scott McGrath
What grade of receiver will this thing NOT break the Garmin stack in our flying club’s plane is a heck of a lot better than consumer grade GNSS but we’ll be line of sight to the transmitters Sorry I miscopied the power specs but DbW is even worse. I was visualizing microcells not full power ba

Re: [time-nuts] - LightSquared is back now called Ligado

2020-04-18 Thread bill
Hi, This is going to affect INMARSAT and Iridium satellite phone service as well.  Does anyone know anything about this? As I see it, putting such transmitters into operation will render consumer grade GNSS receivers unusable.  High-end survey and reference receiving systems might have to be u

Re: [time-nuts] - LightSquared is back now called Ligado

2020-04-18 Thread Dave B via time-nuts
Hi. Reading that web page, they are talking dBW levels, not dBm levels.  Hopefully that is a typo, as 0dBW is of course 1000 times more than 0dBm. To quote from the page:- The base-station power reduction is "from 32dBW to 9.8dBW," and Ligado committed to a 23MHz "guard-band using its own licen