From: Adamsc@io-online.com (Adamsc)
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 20:33:29 +0800
To: "shamrock@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Export laws don't just affect crypto
Message-ID: <19961004020539265.AAA223@GIGANTE>
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On Tue, 1 Oct 1996 00:05:16 -0700 (PDT), Lucky Green wrote:

>The recent posts about GPS made me research the state of the art of GPS 
>receivers. Seems they are getting pretty good. Two pounds, sub-meter 
>accuracy, attitude determination, all at altitudes up to 60,000 feet and 
>speeds up to 1,000 nmph. But what really caught my eye was the fine print 
>at the bottom of the spec sheet:
>
>"Higher altitude and velocities up to 25,000 nautical miles-per-hour 
>options are available in the U.S."
>
>I gather from this that as long as you are in the US, you are welcome to 
>use this technology for applications that require larger than 1,000 nmph 
>speeds.
>
>Seems the software industry is not the only industry that's suffering 
>from silly export control laws.


Possibly  - certainly there are plenty of legislators who'd do it.   I'd
heard, however, that the precision of your signal could be increased by
getting a fix on more than 3 satellites at a time - and that the GPS network
had been designed to 'blanket' the Northern Hemisphere.

#  Chris Adams <adamsc@io-online.com>   | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp
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