• Re: ?FCC Wants Alternatives to GPS, Raising Possibility of Starlink Inv

    From Alistair Tyrrell@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 10 22:53:18 2025
    In article <vqnhd9$1hd22$2@dont-email.me>, lynnmcguire5
    @gmail.com says...

    On 3/8/2025 8:44 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

    ??Continuing to rely so heavily on one system leaves us exposed,? says
    FCC Chair Brendan Carr.?

    In other words, the trump oligarchy wants to feed even more public
    money into the pockets of his cronies.

    Sigh. More TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome).

    Shooting down thousands of Starlink satellites is infinitely harder that shooting down 31 GPS satellites.

    And, there is no backup for the current GPS system.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Backup_system

    Lynn

    My Garmin devices use GPS and / or GLONASS and / or
    Galileo, it's a menu config option.
    https://support.garmin.com/en-GB/?faq=
    13CvcPK8Um0mekc3F2eVmA

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