Letters to the Editor: Hope

February 1, 2011 - By GPS World Staff

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Hope

I was fortunate enough in 1993 to have three minutes of fame on 60 Minutes in a program about GPS that aired between Christmas and New Year’s that year. Also in the 13-minute segment was a short demo of a GPS PLGR. A reporter asked a lieutentant colonel outside Shreiver AFB to demonstrate how far and in what direction New York City lay. The colonel said, given the bearing and distance shown on the two-line display, he theoretically could navigate all the way from Colorado to New York. That lieutenant colonel was Willie Shelton. So I have hope that he will do the right thing for GPS during his tenure as head of Space Command. [System news, p. 14]

— Len Jacobson
Global Systems and Marketing Inc.
Long Beach, California

Down and Deep

Wow! The article “Down and Deep” by Frank van Diggelen [December 2010 issue] was so useful for explaining the alternatives to GPS to a bunch of suits that normally don’t get it. I’ve shared it with many of my colleagues and they’ve all had the same reaction. Thank you!

— Ed Harrison
Orange County Probation Department
Santa Ana, California