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Re: A further reason for traditional Navigation - GPS interference

Subject: Re: A further reason for traditional Navigation - GPS interference
From: Walter Guinon (wguinon@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Jan 06 2003 - 09:46:57 EST

Maybe we should be worrying about GPS interfering with TV reception.

--- George Huxtable <george@XXX.XXX> wrote:
> Aubrey O'callaghan quoted the following news item-
>
> >"FAULTY GPS? CHECK THE TV AERIAL! THE next time a ship runs onto the
> >Tricolor wreck it may worth checking whether anybody was watching
> >television at the time. US Coast Guard is warning that certain marine
> >television antennas may interfere with the performance of Global
> >Positioning System receivers.
>
> What may be more of a problem in the interference of television with
> navigation, is when the watch officer is watching television rather than
> looking out of the bridge window.
>
> George Huxtable.

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