planned GPS outage on the west coast
THe Navy is up to something--secret: POPMech May not affect you too much on the ground unless you are near the Naval Weapons Station in the SoCal desert.
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SCVJeff wrote:The story I mentioned had a link to an FAA drawing showing the cone shaped beam. Anything on the ground will not be affected. Virtually every telcom office uses GPS clocks to sync digital switches and transmission equipment so it isn't just places like Goldstone.Gene&Ginny wrote:Dont forget that they are reporters trying to demonstrate a point. But look at the plot issued on the NOTAM. The radius of this thing looks to go out possibly 500miles. If that's accurate the verticle view is probably going to look like a mushroom. It'll be interesting to see who and what's affected by this. Even at Goldstone there are GPS sync'd clocks
One of the online stories (that I can't find at the moment) showed a "side view" of the interference. It was a V shaped directional pattern.
