From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_comcast.net)
Date: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 21:05:52 PDT
somewhere near the temporal coordinates of 8/7/03 12:20 PM, the entity known
as Matthew Boulanger transmitted the following from
matthewboulanger_at_mac.com:
> The Trimble card and antennae were pretty much off the shelf items availabl=
> e to the public. While they may have been, at the time, adjusted to decode=
> the military GPS signals (allowing for meter-level accuracy in realtime), =
> they are extremely unlikely to be able to do so now (as the system is passw=
> ord enrypted, and has likely changed in the passing years).
Actually, wasn't SA (selective availability) turned off a few years ago
(meaning that you can now get the meter-type accuracy)?
- Eric.
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