Right on. Every airplane flying passengers will still have our GPS system on board. The european gps if it ever is built will broadcast on three (3) channels so even if one was degraded a little bit it wouldn't matter much. They will need to keep our system if they ever want to be able to fly passengers into US or NATO controlled airspace. It will be at least 10-15 years before such a system could be in place and certified by the airlines. By then Eagle would be at the end of its life anyway.
If we just give up whole freq bands because we are scared of the big bad europeans who are drowning in socialist social program debt, then we deserve to lose our bands if we give up without a fight. If a country tries to take away our bad because of this "bad science" then we should fight them in court and in the public relations area. I say figure out a way to use and justify our L band in WWIII that we find ourselves in now. Are we not now recognized at least in this country as the last line of communications in case of attack? Plan for a way to use Eagle when the next attack or hurricane comes our way.
If L band makes sense from a technical point of view then build and deploy it. let the political battles come and be fought if they must after that.
Les W4SCO
At 11:08 PM 9/20/2006, George Henry wrote:
Gosh! How did we ever fly airplanes without crashing them, before satellite navigation?
Show me a commercial pilot who would rely solely on his GPS for navigation, and I'll show you a pilot who doesn't belong in the cockpit!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael R. Owen" nlsa@nlsa.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 4:51 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Galileo interference on L band
Friends,
<snip> > > Having said this, AMSAT planners should know that any amateur > interference or intrusion into the GPS & Galileo "band" would be > supremely foolish. All the arguments about how ham radio is great in > emergencies will count for nothing the first time an aircraft crashes > after losing its satellite navigation due to interference. I have been > a ham for 35+ years and love the hobby dearly, but we must keep in mind > that in the Big Picture, we are not very important. The FCC and its > European counterparts will yank our 13cm ("L" band) allocation in a > heartbeat if we interfere with GPS/Galileo. > > 73, > W9IP > > -- > Michael R. Owen, W9IP >
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