Amen, brother! My little toy GPS shows an apparent improvement of nearly a
factor of ten, and I really am glad that I voted for Clinton, too.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At midnight last night, the Unites States disabled its intentional
> degradation of GPS signals available to the public. Known as Selective
> Availability (SA), the degradation feature was put in place to protect US
> military and government interests, but with changing times President Clinton
> and his cabinet "realized that worldwide transportation safety, scientific,
> and commercial interests could best be served by discontinuation of SA." This
> means that civilian users of GPS will be able to pinpoint locations up to ten
> times more accurately.
>
> I called Fugro's Greg Paleolog this morning to make sure my proposed HEM
> survey of the Stillwater Complex would use SA. Fugro is testing the new SA
> availability today and it looks like "differential"-GPS equipment may soon
> join buggy-whips, Cray-computers, and DOS-disks on the techno-scrape-heap
> <grin>.
>
> For you geo-day-traders out there, companies built on "differential-GPS"
> valuations may soon be in jeopardy.
>
> In all, a very good GPS decision for acquisition/field geos like me (& glad I
> voted for Clinton.)
>
> Regards,
> Terry J. Crebs
> California Registered Geophysicist
> Lakewood, Colorado
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