John- I agree. We all should/would have seen even a minor outage. That's what makes the event from early this week a rather odd event.
I have personally observed GPS jamming events from truck drivers trying to prevent being tracked. But those events are very localized it seems and are well bounded. I cannot speak for others, but I am on a presumption/ theory for our vendor supplied gear that the GPS engines may not have dealt very well with SVN 4 being tagged as "not for use" on Sept 3 & 4. Just a theory from an RF guy since I have no other explanation why some gear had issues yet 99% of us Time-Nuts never noticed an issue. Oh well...... -Brian, WA1ZMS On Sep 6, 2013, at 12:23 AM, "John C. Westmoreland, P.E." <j...@westmorelandengineering.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > Not to go off on a tangent here but are there 'time nuts' distributed > around the globe in such a way as we'd know about an outage? > > One good hiccup by the Sun and it could cause an outage - correct? ( > http://www.spaceweather.com) > > It wasn't so long ago we were told the Iridium 'Flares' were all that were > left of Motorola's project and now you can go buy a phone here: > http://iridium.com/default.aspx > > Regards, > John W. > > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Chris Albertson > <albertson.ch...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Can anyone estimate how many GPS jammers there are in the New England >> area? There just might be "thousands". I don't know. >> >> I think the reason most people are not effected is that most GPS user >> are mobile and if they are near a jammer it is only for a few minutes >> >> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Bob Camp <li...@rtty.us> wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> You could indeed deploy a few thousand gizmos and have a pretty >> significant impact. I'm not at all sure that would be the easier task …. >> >> >> -- >> >> Chris Albertson >> Redondo Beach, California >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.