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[Lewis]

Tests show proposed wireless network could harm GPS systems

WASHINGTON — Test results filed with federal regulators Thursday show that a proposed high-speed wireless broadband network being planned by a Virginia company called LightSquared could interfere with GPS systems used for everything from aviation to high-precision timing networks to consumer navigation devices.



Tests show that a proposed high-speed wireless broadband network may interfere with GPS signals.

The results were filed with the Federal Communications Commission by a technical working group created to study the extent of potential GPS interference that the LightSquared network would cause. The findings add to the debate about whether the FCC should permit LightSquared to proceed with its plans to launch a new nationwide wireless network that would compete with AT&T and Verizon Wireless.

Although the FCC gave LightSquared approval in January, the agency said it would not let the network be turned on until GPS interference problems are resolved.

[Bent Club]

I know when i use to take my boat out of Atlantic City and the gov use to play war games with the air planes . they would scramble the signals so they couldn't be targeted , use to make the GPS go crazy .

Wonder what this is going to do .

[Lewis]

Atlantic City, I was partly raised there.

[Bent Club]

I use to dock at trump . small world . you have to see the Taj from the ocean .
Small world i'm from 10th and Tasker in South Phila.

[Lewis]

When I go deep sea fishing we always cast off from Cap May. My aunt had a beach front home on Main Avenue, before the casino's made her move. I am a ocean person.

[Bent Club]

Been on there many a time . Use to cut through the channel, to the bay , down to the C & D channel ,then into Balt harbor .

[Lewis]

Bent Club, on 02 July 2011 - 09:07 AM, said:

Been on there many a time . Use to cut through the channel, to the bay , down to the C & D channel ,then into Balt harbor .

Wow we have never done that.

[Bent Club]

You have to do it once Lewis . There's a nice restaurant on the C&D . Beautiful area on the Chesapeake bay . lot of historical places to visit by water . When i hit the lottery and get another hole in the water . Oooops meant boat . I'll call you . lol

[Lewis]

Bent Club, on 02 July 2011 - 09:49 AM, said:

You have to do it once Lewis . There's a nice restaurant on the C&D . Beautiful area on the Chesapeake bay . lot of historical places to visit by water . When i hit the lottery and get another hole in the water . Oooops meant boat . I'll call you . lol

Yeah you do that.