In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, bg@ lysator.liu.se writes: >On Mon, January 15, 2007 11:41, Poul-Henning Kamp said:
>Many surveyors use GPS and GLONASS L1+L2 now. Are there there even ONE >major manufacturer of dual freq receivers that have not announced support >for the upcoming Galileo signals. More satellites up there will enable >usage in marginal conditions where today GPS alone fails. Absolutely! All of them will love the free signals, but none of them are going to pay for the subscription service. >> My conclusion is that Galileo was a bluff to force GPS under NATA >> control and it didn't work out and now nobody has the balls (or >> ovaries) to admit that. > >Or maybe its a system to give the French nuclear forces an alternative >GNSS... :-) > >That said, its sad if Galileo funding problems remove all european Loran-C >funding. Right now the European Radio Navigation Plan is stalled because the commission is too busy (finding money for Galileo) to do anything about the larger picture, which includes Loran-C. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
