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Cell phones since they first came out have *never ever* been setup to run on anything other than GPS. Retrofitting them to use something else would take a decade or more. We didn’t “destroy the backup”, there never was one. Pretty much all of our surplus gizmos are cell tower surplus (like 99.99%). Bob > On Feb 26, 2016, at 11:57 AM, Burt I. Weiner <b...@att.net> wrote: > > Maybe I'm misreading what you're saying, but no matter the cause, it points > out what can and does happen when you put all the mission critical eggs in > one basket. That we don't have as reliable as possible a backup system, or > why we destroyed the one we had, is mind boggling. This is a perfect example > of what happens when you have people who don't understand the problem/s > making the wrong final decisions in spite of having been warned. > > It is my belief that if we are to be so reliant on these systems for so many > things, we need to have a functioning backup system in place. > > Burt, K6OQK > > > >> Mark Sims wrote: >> >> When is some organization going to explain what happened in February for >> >> almost two hours starting at 00:16 GMT? That subject has gone silent. >> >> Rob, NC0B >> > I heard back from NAVCEN. They said it was a Trimble issue and that >> > Trimble would contact me (they didn't). But that does not jive with >> > reports of failures in Motorola, Navman, etc receivers. >> >> I think we need to distinguish here. >> >> The January 26 issue was due to faulty data sent by the satellites, >> which caused GPS receivers to apply a wrong UTC correction which caused >> the UTC time to be off by 13.7 us. >> >> As explained by Luc Gaudin from http://naelcom.com (who obviously sell >> Trimble GPS receivers) the February 13 issue was indeed just a Trimble >> firmware problem. See: >> https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2016-February/096042.html >> https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2016-February/096050.html >> >> Martin > > Burt I. Weiner Associates > Broadcast Technical Services > Glendale, California U.S.A. > b...@att.net > www.biwa.cc > K6OQK > _______________________________________________ > 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.
