Re: [amsat-bb] FCC Part 97 Regulations on transmission of music

On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Bruce kk5do@amsat.org wrote:

The BIRDS can do whatever is legal in their country and if they really wanted to make it unavailable while over the United States to appease the FCC, they can put an on/off switch based on GPS coordinates and then we would miss out on the fun of receiving the satellite.

How well does GPS work with satellites in LEO? (NavStars are in higher orbit, right?) Is it accurate? You'd have to sort of do a reverse bank shot thing because you're not dealing with the satellite's position, but the position of its footprint. How would that work? I see lots of math in someone's future! :-D