Keep your skirts on ladies,,
Control part of GPS signal stations are located and controlled by the US Airforce ,, in fact it is owned by the US Govt,, the whole GPS.
32 some sats sending signals to 15 or so stations (Probably more hidden away) ,, with command station in Colorado,, the rest ,,outside of Russia,, UK,, Korea ,, Marshall Island etc ,, well away from the Russians.
This Russian action will not affect us riding through Russia , using smart phone,, garmin or any other civilian GPS.
Besides ,, USA and Russia has entered negotiation on this and international stations, with three months window.
As you can see ,, it can cover anything in between UK and Korea. Only way to shut that down is the US Govt.
Also ,, There are two types of GPS ground stations for the USA system. Main stations about 5 around the world provide corrections to timing data due to relativistic effects, clock drift, ephemeris, or ionospheric delays that are timing constants rebroadcast by the satellites to receivers for corrections. The types of stations in Russia are for augmented gps called Global-DGPS . DGPS improves local GPS accuracy from about 3m to 10 cm. However this lack of support in Russia's areas only effects civilian use of the US system in those areas. Meaning Garmin is really screwed (I can see Bertrand,,palpitating his lips already) ,, if this happens. The Chinese, EU, and Russian systems won't be effected. Smart phones come in all systems.
To see all this Russian action in the 21st century is mind boggling. Gorbachev and Yeltsin ,, one must be sad,, one must be turning in his grave.
Last edited by seouljoe; 14 May 2014 at 03:19.
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