Re: Clarification about the term "GPS Shutdown"

From: Dave Baker (newsgroup_poster_at_jodael.com)
Date: 12/24/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 22:56:03 +1030

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:29:32 -0500, Alan Browne
<alan.browne@FreeLunchVideotron.ca> wrote:

>You're too polarized in your thinking and you haven't named a single thing that
>is so GPS dependant that it will fail totally.

Ok, how about my entire business - long range tracking of ships at sea using
GPS for positioning & Inmarsat D+ for data link.

One day the manufacturers of this equipment will hopefully have a version of
the transponder that runs on Galileo as well as GPS, but not at the moment.

There is no other system that gives us the accuracy we need over the coverage
region that we need for the price we need.

Dave

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