Re: GPS 2R-M1 FINALLY LAUNCHED

What's the translation for those who know nothing about Lx signals?
How much more accuracy are we talking about and by what date? 2014? Will
these new satellites augment the existing?
And it sounds like we will have to buy new GPSRs to take advantage?

Thanks,
Thor


"Gavin Scott" <gavin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:11jm1752r2ebadc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sam Wormley <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Ref: http://www.ion.org/vol101/vol10.htm
>> Status of Additional Civil Signals
> [...]
>> A constellation of at least 24 space vehicles having the L5 signal is not
>> expected before about 2014.
>
> Yet the first manufacturer to incorporate support for L2 and/or L5 in
> their receiver chipset (assuming the antenna systems for L1 can be
> made usable at the new frequencies) so that they can advertise that
> they're "all frequency" or "L2/L5 ready" will have a distinct advantage,
> so I predict you'll be able to buy such a receiver long before it
> will be really useful, and I'm sure people will start whining about
> not being able to use the L2 signal within minutes of it coming
> online :-)
>
> The GPS manufacturers will love this since they can sell at least two
> new generations of receivers to everyone over the next few years.
>
> G.


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