GPS down?

[Paul]

luci, cant you take a joke? yeah, i really think the government is tracking your movements! honest, i do!

[Luciano U. Werner]

Only 50m? The worst reading I got today was 33m, and the best 22. But the signal wasn't steady, as if it was weak (never did that before). Is there many buildings in your region?

[Luciano U. Werner]

Paul, yes I can.<br>:P

[Diego Cueva]

Nope. Where I live there are only houses.. But this error is normal since my GPS is about uhmm 4 years old..

[Luciano U. Werner]

Weel, maybe that's the problem. I have a Garmin eTrex that I bought this year. Sweet little device.

[Diego Cueva]

Yeah, Garmin is great.

[Turnip]

My Gramin eTrex Legend is getting the usual 25-30 feet accuracy here in Boston.<br><br>I guess that's, what, 10 meters, give or take a few?

[Luciano U. Werner]

About 10m. I think it's SA. It was said that in time of crises, the accuracy would go down.<br>Just can't figure why it's bad here and good in the US. After all, no towel-head wants to pinpoint anything here in Brazil.

[RICoder]

SA is controllable now, so its only outside the US that this is occuring.  My car and my handheld GPS's are working fine.

[Moose or Chuck]

Charmin is soft and fluffy. But I'm still partial to quilted goodness.

[Paul]

*yawns*

[RICoder]

ya know, I try to have a serious conversation for once, and it degrades to this...

[Luciano U. Werner]

That's because they don't know what a GPS is.<br>BTW, wasn't SA supposed to permit only 5m of accuracy worldwide for civilian use?<br>I know military units can get 1-2m.

[RICoder]

W A Y back in the day, when I was in the Army, it SA was perminent and you needed a special GPS to get accurate readings, which, of course, we had.<br><br>Then some genious figured out how to make SA only occur in some regions of the world, without modifying GPS units, only the software in the sattelites.  And thus, we have a more limited version of SA in the US.  But it is still not as accurate as, say, a military version.  So you can get down to a few meters with a civilian model.<br><br>If you are really jazzed about accuracy, you can get a GPS with a multiple sampling key, that will let you get a more accurate reading the longer you are stationary.  Mine does this.  They also have perminent USGS posts that, if you are close enough and have a reciever, will send out 'corrections' to give you more accuracy.

[Moose or Chuck]

I know what a GPS is, and I just happen to have the most advanced GPS receiver yet conceived! It's the ... err.. uhm. Na.. Navigater 9, uhm, 9 thousand! Yes, that's right!