Originally Posted by +8Rich
They downgraded the system during the Gulf war conflict for Civilian users, we were carrying out a monitoring exercise at the time wink The military one's were fine.
This was way before every Tom, Dick and Henrietta had one of course.

It makes a lot of difference where you mount them too in terms of speed of acquisition and real time tracking i.e. accuracy..

p.s. I am talking about pure Satnavs which is the same platform for the devices you are talking about.


I was involved with the early days of Satnav (precision differential positioning for the offshore industry). Our first 6 channel receiver, made by Trimble, was the size of a carry-on suitcase and cost $100,000. Ephemeris data (the satellite orbit data) had to be download from a site in the US and uploaded to the receiver. What progress that you can now buy something much better for less than £30.
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