LightSquared Hearing: LISTEN LIVE 2-4pm EDT TODAY

This was in my inbox today:

Dear Bradley,

If you are interested in the LightSquared issue,you can use the link below to listen to the live webcast of a hearing in the House of Representatives Science, Space and Technology Committee being aired from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT today.

This hearing could have major impact on the resolution of the LightSquared Issue.

CLICK HERE to Listen

Thank you to everyone who has written letters, sent emails or made phone calls. This is truly an uphill battle for the professional and precision users of GPS. Your efforts CAN make all the difference to the legislators.

Hearing Purpose

As quoted from the charter link on the site...

The purpose of this hearing is to examine the concerns and issues associated with interference on the Global Positioning System (GPS) signal from the proposed LightSquared LLC terrestrial broadband network related to Federal scientific activities.
The committee will review the results of recent testing on the impact of the LightSquared network on the GPS signal. Potential interference could disable the GPS signal used for critical U.S. Government services and science missions such as the Next Generation Air Transportation System, Earth and space science missions, communications and navigation, space mission operations, weather predication and climate observation, search and rescue, disaster response and public safety, navigation, geodesy, and marine research platforms and services. In addition, the Committee will examine measures and costs necessary to implement and prioritize mitigation strategies at Federal departments and agencies.

from page 3 of the charter...

In light of the test results from the TWG and the NPEF reports, LightSquared has proposed a new plan to initiate commercial operations utilizing the lower 10MHz of its L-band spectrum that the company believes will minimize interference with the GPS signal.

While LightSquared maintains its new proposal will significantly reduce interference to a large percentage of the GPS user community, its impact on aviation, space-based, and high precision users, such as the FAA NextGen, NASA Earth Science missions, GPS meteorology, seismology, and NOAA weather satellites and marine surveyors remains uncertain. While these users represent a small percentage of the overall GPS community their services are critical to U.S. government operations and science missions.

It appears the hearing will be available to see later also in case you can't watch or listen live.

The link in this message is to a page with links to all of their past hearings...

http://science.house.gov/legislation?type=hearing

Full Committee Hearing TODAY - Impacts of the LightSquared N

Has the meeting begun? I activated the link but hear only static.

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Same here. Static.

Full Committee Hearing TODAY - Impacts of the LightSquared N

Now it is on.

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Yup - on it is.

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yup, started 20 minutes late.

Already mentioned Land Surveyros though, good start...

GPS -> $3T economy comment & has created 3 million jobs...

Thanks Brad, I'm listening now!

Have a great weekend!

Thank you for posting the link to the hearing. This is what this board is so great at.

A~men. It seemed like a positive hearing as far as we are concerned??

Looks like Light Squared is going to have dig deeper in their pockets to pay off more politicians.

Have a great weekend!

Excellent, please keep us posted.