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LightSquared: Comments I Submitted to the FCC

July 28, 2011

Okay, folks, this is where the rubber meets the road. The FCC LightSquared public comment period ends this Saturday. If you use GPS, it would be very wise to submit your comments today. Don’t expect the FCC to make a rational decision. LightSquared has an amazing amount of political influence, and you can see that in the support they receive from state legislators, mayors, chiefs of police, etc. In this article, I’ll show you how to submit your comments to the FCC in just five minutes. I’ll also show comments I’m submitting to the FCC.


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LightSquared: 1, High-Precision GPS: 0

July 14, 2011

At stake is the high-precision GPS industry as we know it. If LightSquared’s current proposal is approved by the FCC, it will render tens of thousands, and possibly hundreds of thousands of GPS receivers obsolete starting as early as next year. The FCC is accepting public comments until July 30 and replies to those comments until August 15. After the public comment period is closed, the FCC can render a decision at any time. Last weekend, I spoke alongside LightSquared and the Coalition to Save Our GPS in a two-hour panel discussion at the Esri Survey Summit in San Diego. Here’s my report.


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LightSquared: High-Precision Receivers Are Collateral Damage

June 21, 2011

Originally, the LightSquared/GPS Technical Working Group’s (TWG) report was due to the FCC on June 15. LightSquared requested from the FCC, and received, a two-week extension to submit their report. Three days later, LightSquared announced they found a solution to the GPS interference problem. Their proposed solution is not good news for the high-precision GPS user community.


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LightSquared: It’s Worse than You Think

May 18, 2011

Tired of hearing about LightSquared? Think it’s a bunch of panicking journalists hungry for something to write about?
Listen, it usually takes a lot to get the hairs standing up on the back of my neck. On the LightSquared issue, they are at full attention. Why?


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Q&A from L5 and LightSquared Webinars

May 5, 2011

In late March, I conducted a webinar titled “A Closer Look at L5: The Future of High-Precision GNSS,” in which I discussed the impact that the new GPS L5 signal/frequency may have on high-precision users. Then, in April I was part of a discussion panel-format webinar titled “LightSquared: Our Story So Far.” Many questions and comments arose from both webinars, and I’ll attempt to address those in this column.


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GPS Surveying/Mapping Current Events

April 6, 2011

The first few months of 2011 have been ripe with technical challenges (LightSquared), technical innovations (Galileo/Compass), and business activity (who is Trimble buying next?).


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Webinar Brief – A Closer Look at L5: The Future of High-Precision GNSS

March 18, 2011

Yesterday I conducted a webinar titled “A Closer Look at L5: The Future of High-Precision GNSS.” Preparing for it was quite interesting, so I thought I’d share some of the slides I produced (and had produced) for the webinar. I think you’ll find them interesting.


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I’m Buying A New RTK Receiver. What Should I get?

March 15, 2011

In light of this weeks webinar, A Closer Look at L5: The Future of High-Precision GNSS, and spurred by an email from a reader about how to sift through all the GPS/GNSS receiver choices, following are my thoughts if you’re looking to purchase an RTK receiver today.


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