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Uh oh: FCC breaks own rules and approves broadcaster that will jam GPS

"Representatives of the GPS industry presented to members of the Federal Communications Commission clear, strong laboratory evidence of interference with the GPS signal by a proposed new broadcaster on January 19 of this year. The teleconference and subsequent written results of the testing apparently did not dissuade FCC…

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Added by Ken on February 2, 2011 at 7:00pm — 12 Comments

GPS News for October

Registration is now open for The Institute of Navigation (ION) Eighth Annual Robotic Lawn Mower Competition to be held June 2-4, 2011, at Siebenthaler’s Beaver Valley Garden Center near Dayton, Ohio.…
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Added by Ken on October 13, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

GPS news -- PRN 25 now active

In an earlier forum discussion I made the comment that GPS Satellite 25 was having some checkout issues. It has now been declared operational. Story below:





"GPS satellite SVN62 (PRN25)…
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Added by Ken on September 3, 2010 at 4:48pm — 2 Comments

Putting your EM-406 GPS back in to NMEA mode without waiting

I've read several times that to get your EM-406 out of binary mode you need to remove power and wait three days or a week, Bah! Send it the (binary mode) command to go back to NMEA! The only catch is, you do have to know what speed it is listening/talking in binary. If you don't know that, you can try all the bit rates. If that doesn't work, then I guess that you will need to unplug for a week. :(



The following sketch will set your 406 to NMEA mode, and set which messages to send, at… Continue

Added by Ken on November 12, 2009 at 6:45pm — 5 Comments

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