GPS chaos: How a $30 box can jam your life

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GPS chaos: How a $30 box can jam your life

Post by Doppelfrog » 07 March 11 10:47 pm

Apologies if that has been posted before (didn't see it), but this is a really interesting article on how dependant we are generally on GPS (and not just for geocaching :) )
According to the electronic display on the ship's bridge, the Galatea was suddenly flying at Mach speeds over northern Europe and Ireland. Then alarms sounded. The ship's navigation backup – its gyrocompass – crashed, because it uses GPS to provide corrections. The radar did the same. Even the ship's satellite communications failed, because GPS points the antenna in the right direction.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2 ... -life.html

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Post by SuperMoosie » 08 March 11 8:51 am

There is also this, which may explain some DNF's last week.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011 ... 156542.htm

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Re: GPS chaos: How a $30 box can jam your life

Post by Teirae » 08 March 11 11:26 am

and people pay me out for having and using paper street maps when i'm in my car!!

I only use my gps for geocaching.

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Re: GPS chaos: How a $30 box can jam your life

Post by Big Matt and Shell » 08 March 11 11:46 am

That is very scary... but has given me a great idea for a cache :twisted:

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