Interesting question, Vince...am sure someone on here will be able to
answer it. I know at one time the civilian population was restricted
from the most accurate location, and as I also remember the military
accuracy was within a centimeter if several observations were
taken...Nice to see your smiling face on here, my friend...
Anyone?
73 Dave
I have an old GPS unit, a Magellan explorist 210. It's fairly
accurate determining position. After it has acquired about eight to
ten satellites the position error averages between 20 to 35
feet. Now the question, the other day I was looking at one of the
information pages the unit can display and on it, it gives the time
in UTC. Just for fun I thought I would see how close the time was to
WWV. I was surprised to see the unit was between one to four seconds
off over various tests compared to WWV. IS this typical of all GPS
units or do some display the time of day more accurately?
KB7ADL
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73, Dave, WB6LLO
dguim...@san.rr.com
Disagree: I learn....
Pulling for P3E...
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