Category Archives: GPS Science

Immediate Danger Averted, But Fuzzy Frequency Thinking Abounds

Avweb Comes through with the best update I have seen on the GPS/LightSquared mess … Thanks, Guys: LightSquared Update Recent tests have shown that LightSquared’s proposed grid of 40,000 wireless network ground stations could interfere with GPS signals, and now the FCC has granted LightSquared a two-week extension to file a report on its position. … Continue reading

Act Now To Save GPS As We Know It — Critical Information For All GPS users

I reported on this a few weeks back, along with a plea to contact your elected representatives on the issue.  I don’t know how many of you did … my Congressman and Senators apparently were too busy dismantling Medicare to take notice.  I also joined the Coalition to Save Our GPS, something else I recommend … Continue reading

Save Our GPS Tracking — Get Writing, Friends

If you’re a friend of GPS, or even you GPS haters who find their way here, if you can ever perceive of a time GPS might find your lost child or help catch your wife’s rapist, or something equally as high in your self interest, you ought to think about joining in the campaign and … Continue reading

Don’t Buy GPS Tracking, Buy Slime Mold Instead.

Here’s a pretty interesting item that crossed my desk recently.  I has a lot of applicability to the world of GPS mapping, GPS tracking, Fleet or asset management and one of my most favorite subjects … which I can hardly ever find a good excuse to write about … business continuity planning … disaster preparedness. … Continue reading

GPS Tracking Can’t Find Flight 477 — and Why

Few have escaped hearing the tragic story of how Air France flight 477 disappeared in to Atlantic a thousand miles or so east of Brazil on a flight to Paris.  The Brazilian military and other organizations are putting in near-heroic and not unfruitful efforts in find the remains of the passengers and plane, but as … Continue reading