A little background info for those interested:
These are scheduled test events for verifying and validating the WAAS GPS
position-enhancement system for air flight guidance. Here is the report
issued in 2014 for the 2013 year:
http://www.nstb.tc.faa.gov/reports/PAN84_0114.pdf
You can see the test events discussed in Section 8 of the report, although
I was not able to quickly find details on the nature of the testing. I am
sure that data should be findable if interested. I am told by a friend that
these tests are done quarterly, but I don't know the veracity of that
information.
Here is the WAAS testing website:
http://www.nstb.tc.faa.gov/
-Doug
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Jenner Hanni wrote:
> I'm heading to spend the night in Bend on Friday and then was planning to
> road trip randomly all weekend, was considering Eastern Oregon. This is
> ridiculously perfect. I'm totally willing to go along, not sure I'm up for
> driving people though. But count me in, somehow!
>
> > On Jun 22, 2015, at 1:27 PM, Kenny wrote:
> >
> > The longest window is Saturday from 10a-5p local time. Can we get a dev
> > jGPSv3 running and assemble a Mt. McLoughlin away team by then? I'm up
> > for the drive with a couple passengers.
> >
> > I wonder if this will impact any of the higher altitude rockets
> > acquiring GPS lock while at apogee this weekend at NXRS.
> >
> > This is why we need a cube-sat with SDR and directional antenna in
> > orbit. Then we could pick up ground based interference from our
> > bathrobes.
> >
> > --
> > Kenny
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >> On Mon, 2015-06-22 at 11:28 -0700, Theo Hill wrote:
> >> As far as finding a spot to observe in Oregon, Mt. McLoughlin is a
> >> 9,500ft non-technical peak in Southern Oregon that is 1NM from the
> >> 4,000ft AGL boundary. I'd be totally willing to climb with a laptop
> >> for science.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Nathan Bergey
> >> wrote:
> >>Woah, that's fascinating.
> >>
> >>We would need to get one of the other GPS boards streaming IQ
> >>data
> >>reliably--which we really want to do anyway. It's too far of a
> >>trip to
> >>take just for this, I think. Depends on how crazy we're
> >>feeling.
> >>
> >>Might as well record somewhere high up in Portland (Skyline?)
> >>just in
> >>case we can see something, though it looks pretty unlikely.
> >>
> >>Based on the circles size and the way it cites altitudes I'm
> >>pretty
> >>sure the interference will be terrestrial. Then again maybe
> >>that's
> >>what they want us to think :)
> >>
> >>
> >>-Nathan
> >>
> >>>On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:19 AM, I wrote:
> >>> To the GPS folks, there is an interesting event that will
> >>occur this week
> >>> starting in 15 minutes or so, and going on sporadically this
> >>week/weekend.
> >>> There is a planned GPS outage over a broad area detailed
> >>here:
> >>
> https://www.faasafety.gov/files/notices/2015/Jun/NSAWC_15-01_GPS_Flight_Advisory.pdf
> >>>
> >>> This is centered on a restricted area in Nevada. No idea
> >>what kind of test
> >>> this will be.
> >>>
> >>> From the map, it won't likely affect any of us in the
> >>northwest below 40,000
> >>> ft altitude, but it might be interesting to contact anyone
> >>you know inside
> >>> the map circles and see what they experience. Bonus points
> >>for anyone that
> >>> can log data in the L1, L2, and/or L5 bands in or out of the
> >>circles. It
> >>> would be cool to know if the outage is just a CW jammer,
> >>CDMA jammer, or
> >>> some kind of JEDI satellite tricks.
> >>>
> >>> Enjoy...
> >>
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