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Can someone please translate this into normal words?

Post by Handyman-N-Fam »

I got the jist of this, but I don't know what the effects will be on geocaching.
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Call in Gizmoguy411 for his expert analysis. Sounds like the best thing since hot beer.
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so THAT"S why i couldn't find that last cache when my GPSr was
bouncing all over the place 8O i was Lightsquared ...
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Look like it's time to revert to printing out the google maps of cache locations, and widen out the search of gz to 200-300 ft from center. At least this with make parking lot caches more challenging.
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All we need is more challenging parking lot caches. That would only provide more time for cachers to look suspicious.
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Lightsquared is building up a net of 4G broadband wireless transmitters, and they were given frequencies next to the GPS band. GPS units "hear" that digital noise and it confuses the GPS receiver. The jist of Lightsquared's response: GPS makers, build better GPS units.

This grant of radio spectrum was VERY fast-tracked. Normally the FCC responds at sub-snail pace. Makes one wonder.....
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This reminds me of back in the 60s when my dad, a HAM radio operator, had the very best equipment and the neighbors complained he was interfering with their older TV sets. A simple filter on the back of the set would largely resolve the problem but the neighbors wanted to know who would pay for the filter. Eventually the newer TVs came along with better filtering and that one largely went away. Except for channel 2. I see this as an opportunity for all GPS manufacturers to get back into our pockets again.
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I wonder how big the bribe was?
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Handyman-N-Fam wrote:I wonder how big the bribe was?
Quid pro quo> Say it isn't so!
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I wonder what kind of effects it will have on marking a waypoint. This could be a real (rhymes with glitch).....hmmmmmm
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GrizzFlyer wrote:This grant of radio spectrum was VERY fast-tracked. Normally the FCC responds at sub-snail pace. Makes one wonder.....
Always makes me nervous when the government fast tracks something.
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Funny, when I worked for the government I can remember ANYTHING I was involved in ever being fast-tracked.
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I just found this on another site I frequent.
Here's how it's done.

This is also from the National Legal and Policy Center. The whole story can be read here:

http://www.nlpc.org/

"According to White House visitor access logs, on September 22, 2009, Mr. Falcone and LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja personally visited the White House and met with the Chief of Staff at the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).[10] One day later, the Harbinger/SkyTerra merger agreement was signed.[11]

On September 30, 2009, one week after his September 2009 White House visit, Mr. Falcone contributed $30,400 to the DSCC -- the maximum legal individual contribution limit to a party committee. His wife, Lisa Falcone, contributed an additional $30,400 to the DSCC on the same day. (LightSquared's new CEO Sanjiv Ahuja also contributed $30,400 to the DNC in September of 2010).[12]

Mr. Falcone's contributions to the DSCC were anomalous as, traditionally, Mr. Falcone was a much larger donor to the Republican Party. In fact, just prior to the $60,800 in contributions to the Democrats, the most Mr. Falcone and his spouse previously contributed during that political cycle was $2,400. As for Sanjiv Ahuja, his $30,400 contribution to the DNC was his first political contribution in 8 years, and prior to that he contributed only to Republicans between 1998-2002.

On January 21, 2010, Mr. Falcone visited the White House again, this time for an appointment with John Holdren, the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy."


"In addition to well-timed political contributions to the DSCC at the height of merger review discussions, Mr. Falcone's Harbinger also secured the assistance of a lobbying firm, the Palmetto Group, via Harbinger's legal counsel Goldberg, Godles, Wiener and Wright to lobby Congress and the FCC on mobile satellite services.[13] Mr. Steve Glaze, a lobbyist with the Palmetto Group, was registered to lobby the FCC directly on mobile satellite services and is married to Terri Glaze, a senior staffer at the FCC."
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Government by the lobbyist and for the lawyers. :blowup:
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cheechgang wrote:Call in Gizmoguy411 for his expert analysis. Sounds like the best thing since hot beer.
Late to the party as usual lately, but I heard my name mentioned.

Normal words = "we're screwed"

Let's see... 40k ground stations covering 92% of the country by 2015 translates to geocaching with your old pre-filtered GPS unit will be limited to places where you can't get a cell signal, since signal jamming starts at around 14 miles from the ground stations equipped with L-Band LET.

I think there will be plenty of geocaching opportunities in Antarctica soon.

So much for me buying a Garmin 63 anytime soon.

And don't forget the impact on all of our GPS equipped cell phones too.
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