So back to my original question (I didn't mean to spark such a debate)... These 40,000 transmitter towers... Are they merely talking about attaching their antennas on existing cell towers or totally new deployment?
FWIW, perhaps there wouldn't be as much of a fiasco if every other navigation and timing technology didn't get phased out in favor of GPS... There literally is no backup sans a fold-out map or sun-dial... To say it is 'key' or 'critical' is an understatement. Likewise, I don't like the idea of existing L1 devices becoming scrap to merely support someone's cell phone / broadband addiction. There's too much hardware out there to make replacement impractical short of a decade long transition period. Even then during that transition period lord only knows how many millions (billions?) of dollars it will cost to replace / retrofit existing hardware. Who's going to pay for all that? If I can put a $5 filter on my incoming antenna line to make it reduce most interference from L^2 and I loose maybe one satellite out of eight visible, I'll be content with that... If I have to put a $100 filter to pray I can get signal for an hour a day... Well... L^2 is going to have mysterious constant hardware failures in this area. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
