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(@doug-bruce)
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"The Department of Defense will conduct GPS tests on January 20th through February 22nd, 2011. During testing, the GPS signal may be unreliable or unavailable."

FAA warning about GPS reliability in the southeast

 
Posted : January 20, 2011 2:48 pm
(@ted-dura-dura)
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ANOTHER MILITARY INTELLIGENCE EPISODE--TDD

 
Posted : January 20, 2011 4:23 pm
(@jim-in-az)
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Nate!!!

Maybe the old methods aren't obsolete after all...

 
Posted : January 20, 2011 4:39 pm
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Jim

You know I was thinking the very same thing! It would be funny watching the youngsters staring at their worthless antenna poles wondering WTF!

Don't get me wrong! I love GPS! But I can break out the transit and chain in a heart beat. Now where is that old transit?

 
Posted : January 20, 2011 8:20 pm
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Coincidentally, that bullseye in the picture, is right where that nuclear bomb went missing and is presumably on the ocean floor.

Lost bomb.

:coffee:

 
Posted : January 21, 2011 4:26 am
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Jim

DOD turns off sats for a month.

Well, just let me know. Schedule vacation at that time!

🙂

N

 
Posted : January 21, 2011 6:51 am
(@bill93)
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The location indicated by the Wikipedia article is certainly within the first circle of the FAA map, but misses the center by 50 or 75 miles. I can't think of any reason that they would disturb GPS in association with exploration or recovery efforts.

It would make sense that the military conduct training for area jamming, and tests to prove the secure version of GPS could work through it. That's a little closer to a lot of civilian users than I would have expected them to do it.

 
Posted : January 21, 2011 7:09 am
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Seems weird that they would include Tampa. Isn't that where a lot of our current wars are being waged from? Opposite side of the earth is the Indian Ocean.

 
Posted : January 21, 2011 8:30 am
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Quite frankly, this makes no sense to me at all... I can't envision what "testing" would produce problems in a specific area as is depicted.

 
Posted : January 21, 2011 9:32 am
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here is an interesting article from 2004...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6720387/ns/technology_and_science-space/

 
Posted : January 21, 2011 9:33 am
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Isn't That Where The Air Force Lost An ''H'' Bomb In 1958 ?

Seems they may have found it but cannot safely move it so they will use a super powerfull laser to incinerate it under water.

I think that is more credible than anything Ted can come up with.

Paul in PA

 
Posted : January 21, 2011 9:39 am