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Björn writes:

> The L1 C/A was optimised many decades ago. 

The first GPS receiver to use the L1 C/A code took up four full
racks and required to very alert persons to operate.

There is a picture of it in one of the many "History of GPS"
presentations given by the principals of the programme.


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