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Does anyone have any real worthwhile info of this entire issue? All I've seen is the few incomprehensible technical arguments and then plenty of over-popularise
by 46Bit 15y ago
Does anyone have any real worthwhile info of this entire issue? All I've seen is the few incomprehensible technical arguments and then plenty of over-popularised articles like this one. I think it's obvious that LS can't go ahead if these problems are real, but the whole debate seems to lack much real detail.
- sbierwagen 15y agoLightsquared has a license to broadcast in the 1525-1559 MHz band. Since their transmitters are on the ground, the signals are powerful. GPS is 1559—1610 MHz. These signals are very weak, since the transmitters are in orbit. The pissing match is that even though on paper the two ranges don't overlap, in practice the Lightsquared transmissions tend to stomp all over the lower end of the GPS range, which make various interested parties unhappy. There's additional humor in that while it's certainly possible to get around interference like this, in practice that's dual-use technology which can be used to evade military GPS jamming.