GPS down?

[Luciano U. Werner]

Does anybody own a GPS device? Yesterday mine couldn't get a reading, and today the best accuracy I got was 23m (normally I get 9m). I was wondering if it's this way everywhere, or the US military degraded the signal (SA) only in some areas.

[Diego Cueva]

I can get a 50 meters accuracy.

[Luciano U. Werner]

And how it was before?

[Paul]

why did you buy one?

[Luciano U. Werner]

I use it to travel with my Shadow. Sometimes for trekking, too.

[Paul]

yeah The Shadow's cool. "The Shadow Knows" etc... not as good as spiderman though...

[Diego Cueva]

Luciano, I always get about 50 meters of accuracy, but my GPS is kinda old.. You can get about 5 meters accuracy on new GPS

[Paul]

you do know the government can intercept those devices?

[StingRay]

How do they do that? And why? To find out where you are?

[Diego Cueva]

Actually, my GPS accuracy is low because of a old US army law. For "security reasons", yeah.<br><br>and no, they cant track the device because it doesnt emit any signals to the satelites. It only gets info from the satelites.

[Paul]

how do you know? did you build it?

[Diego Cueva]

Yep.  ~

[Diego Cueva]

Dang, I hate stupid tildes!!

[Luciano U. Werner]

Paul, do you know what a GPS device is? <br>It's a reciever unit that can triangulate your location (your coordinates) by using the time of delay between signals recieved from three or more satelites. It's a reciever, so the goverment can't track you.<br>And FYI, Shadow is a motorcycle that exists in England, too.<br><br>Diego, mine is a 12 channel unit. The SA was lifted in 1998 (if I'm not mistaken), and you can get from 5 to 7m of accuracy (depending on the angle of the satelites overhead in relation to your position). With the mess of yesterday, the military degraded the accuracy of the satelites, so now is not a good time to test it.

[Diego Cueva]

I tested mine today (12 channel), when I saw the thread. I was getting the usual 50 meters calculated error