I wrote an in depth article on the roll-over for GPS World. It's on their Web site: http://www.gpsworld.com -- Richard Langley Professor of Geodesy and Precision Navigation
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Keith E. Brandt, M.D. wrote: >Frank, >Check out http://www.space.com/news/gps_rollover.html for a newspaper-style >story on the GPS rollover, due to occur 22 Aug 99. > >Keith > >At 13:11 8/16/99 , you wrote: >>My wife half-heard a piece on the radio this morning saying that GPS >>instruments would fail next week unless they had previously been >>modified to take account of some transmission changes. They would >>simply be unable to find a position. Sound a bit like the millennium >>bug. Does anyone have any information about this, please? Users were >>advised to contact their suppliers. I'm feeling lost already so can you >>help? >> >>Frank >>-- >>Frank Evans > >============================================================================= >Keith E. Brandt, MD, WD9GET || Goodbye, cruel world that was my home- > Resident in Aerospace Medicine || there's cleaner space out here to roam. >San Antonio, TX || Put my feet up on the moons of Mars- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] || sit back, relax, and count the stars. >http://www.dca.net/~brandt || >============================================================================= > =============================================================================== Richard B. Langley E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geodetic Research Laboratory Web: http://www.unb.ca/GGE/ Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone: +1 506 453-5142 University of New Brunswick Fax: +1 506 453-4943 Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3 Fredericton? Where's that? See: http://www.city.fredericton.nb.ca/ ===============================================================================
