"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
ANOTHER MILITARY INTELLIGENCE EPISODE--TDD
Nate!!!
Maybe the old methods aren't obsolete after all...
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?
Coincidentally, that bullseye in the picture, is right where that nuclear bomb went missing and is presumably on the ocean floor.
:coffee:
Jim
DOD turns off sats for a month.
Well, just let me know. Schedule vacation at that time!
🙂
N
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.
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.
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.
here is an interesting article from 2004...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6720387/ns/technology_and_science-space/
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