Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

2012-03-09 Thread Michael Blazer
Here's the link to the white paper: http://javad.com/downloads/javadgnss/publications/20112312.pdf. It was originally linked from GPS World's news email. It was originally posted as a technical white paper. I don't recall the 'Political Noise' lead in, but then, I'm a technical person and

Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

2012-03-09 Thread David
I see a big lack of details. Form factor? Insertion loss? Frequency change with temperature? How does it compare with a standard Murata filters? On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:32:10 -0600, Michael Blazer mbla...@satx.rr.com wrote: Here's the link to the white paper:

Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

2012-03-09 Thread Michael Blazer
I'm sure it's way, way better. Just ask them, they'll tell you... Even if you could buy it of the shelf, how well would it perform in anything but the reference design? Their envelopes look very, very good. In my experience, the entire front end would need to be very carefully tuned. On

Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

2012-03-07 Thread Rex
There's also a few cars, trucks, emergency vehicles, hand-helds and timing receivers that he didn't bother to mention at all. I suspect most of those would be fixed by complete replacement. (If a full fix is even possible in all situations.) On 3/6/2012 7:37 PM, saidj...@aol.com wrote: I'm

Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

2012-03-07 Thread Raj
I'd accept if they replaced the whole worlds GPSes, it is a cheap option as they claim! I'd like the latest model of smart phone too when you are at it L2! Cheers Raj I'm sorry, but Mr. Javad is on crack. A simple WAAS upgrade on a GENERAL AVIATION aircraft already costs about $8000 fully

Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

2012-03-07 Thread Mike S
On 3/6/2012 10:37 PM, saidj...@aol.com wrote: I'm sorry, but Mr. Javad is on crack. Yeah right. In what world does he live in? The one in which he's head of the only company who offers GNSS receivers with ... LightSquared Inside. http://javad.com/jgnss/javad/news/pr20110921.html

Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

2012-03-07 Thread robkimber...@btinternet.com
It's all very squalid! Sent from Samsung Mobile Original message Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter From: Mike S To: time-nuts@febo.com CC: On 3/6/2012 10:37 PM, saidj...@aol.com wrote: I'm sorry, but Mr. Javad is on crack

Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

2012-03-07 Thread Bob Camp
[mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of robkimber...@btinternet.com Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 12:03 PM To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter It's all very squalid! Sent from Samsung Mobile Original message

Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

2012-03-07 Thread Charles P. Steinmetz
Rob wrote: Javad got into bed with Lightsquared and now things are not working as planned he is throwing his toys out of the pram. Javad was hoping to profit from making (and/or perhaps licensing the technology to make) retrofit filters. Some would have been paid for by LS (presumably at

Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

2012-03-07 Thread Don Latham
What a tangled web we weave. . . Don Charles P. Steinmetz Rob wrote: Javad got into bed with Lightsquared and now things are not working as planned he is throwing his toys out of the pram. Javad was hoping to profit from making (and/or perhaps licensing the technology to make) retrofit

Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

2012-03-07 Thread SAIDJACK
Samsung Mobile Original message Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter From: Mike S To: time-nuts@febo.com CC: On 3/6/2012 10:37 PM, saidj...@aol.com wrote: I'm sorry, but Mr. Javad is on crack. Yeah right. In what world does he live

Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

2012-03-07 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 03/07/2012 07:22 PM, saidj...@aol.com wrote: Sorry for my language, I was quite upset when I read his letter. If it really was trivial and very low cost to upgrade GPS receivers, then he should not worry too much about loosing much revenue. This sounds more like he made major investments in

Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

2012-03-07 Thread Tom Holmes
City, OH EM79 -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of robkimber...@btinternet.com Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 12:03 PM To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

2012-03-07 Thread Michael Blazer
-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter From: Mike S To: time-nuts@febo.com CC: On 3/6/2012 10:37 PM, saidj...@aol.com wrote: I'm sorry, but Mr. Javad is on crack. Yeah right. In what world does he live in? The one in which he's head of the only company who offers GNSS receivers

Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

2012-03-07 Thread lists
...@febo.com Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:19:57 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurementtime-nuts@febo.com Reply-To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter I read a white paper

Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

2012-03-07 Thread Peter Bell
Personally, I would be opposed to LS even if they *did* offer to replace every GPS in the world at their cost. The real issue here is more fundamental - if you are going to allow people to operate high power terrestrial based transmitters in a designated satellite downlink band then what is the

Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

2012-03-07 Thread Charles P. Steinmetz
Pete wrote: I suppose you can't really blame LS for trying it on - the real fault lies with the FCC for not shooting the idea down completely when it was first suggested. The regulatory notion is ancillary terrestrial component (ATC). Its original purpose (conceived in the early '90s) was

Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

2012-03-07 Thread Jim Lux
On 3/7/12 10:22 AM, saidj...@aol.com wrote: Sorry for my language, I was quite upset when I read his letter. If it really was trivial and very low cost to upgrade GPS receivers, then he should not worry too much about loosing much revenue. This sounds more like he made major investments in

Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

2012-03-07 Thread Hal Murray
mbla...@satx.rr.com said: I read a white paper Javad put out touting their new (and cheaper to build) front end filter. Of course it is patented. So guess where everyone has to go should LS get the green light. Was that filter included as part of the recent round of testing? Did it

[time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

2012-03-06 Thread John Darwin Powers
FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter Chairman Julius Genachowski of the Federal Communications Commission spoke to a partisan crowd on Monday, February 27 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. While he did not specifically mention the LightSquared controversy or the FCC’s role in

Re: [time-nuts] FCC Chair Talks Spectrum, Gets GPS Letter

2012-03-06 Thread SAIDJACK
I'm sorry, but Mr. Javad is on crack. A simple WAAS upgrade on a GENERAL AVIATION aircraft already costs about $8000 fully installed. This includes an antenna upgrade that I remember to be about $3000 installed for the antenna itself. $500 per plane to fix the issue? Yeah right. In what