17 *#@%ing years!

[mmckenna]

LTE? Is that the official ("sponsored by the Department of Commerce"), or the competitive (we didn't bid but our marketing guys say we should target the market) - both with spiffy people dressed in 5-11 pants arriving 72 hours after you need them?

No. 3x3 LTE on 900MHz band because what we really need is yet ANOTHER LTE provider. Other than slightly higher RF output, it's just another grab.

As for GPS, some of Lidago's justifications were just downright silly. They figure that GPS receivers will suffer, but by attrition, they'll get replaced. They suggest that all new GPS receivers have better filtering to prevent interference.

And the FCC ate that $h!† up with a big grin on their face and asked for more plus a take home bag.

 

[902]

And the FCC ate that $h!† up with a big grin on their face and asked for more plus a take home bag.

The Gettysburg and what's left of the field office people are amazing, caring people. The closer one gets to the Portals II, the more one smells the sewage odor that's usually masked by lavender hygiene product that wafts through the air in D.C. The reality of LightSquared/Ligado is probably closer to them wanting to line up their next career after public service.

Some people never figured how pervasive GPS is. It's not just navigation or driving directions, as the marketing people tried to spin it in the early days. I wrote an article about this in 2012 for a trade journal. We can include master oscillators for simulcast and precision timebases, network synchronization, infrastructure synchronization (even traffic lights), cellular systems, NTP servers, AVL... I can't locate the article and Elsevier removed them from their website, but there was much more.

So, we'll sacrifice an entire industry built around a major feat of engineering for just another terrestrial data-dump service.

 

[mmckenna]

The Gettysburg and what's left of the field office people are amazing, caring people.

Yeah, field guys I've talked with have been really nice people. Got about half and hour with one of them talking about some interference and had a really good talk with him.

But, yeah, FUBAR'ing up GPS would be a mess. Interesting to read the stuff from the military against it. But the FCC doesn't seem to care.

 

[902]

Interesting to read the stuff from the military against it. But the FCC doesn't seem to care.

The FCC is a creature of Congress, and of the Commissioners. The easiest way for something like this to have the wind taken out of its sails is for all concerned to start contacting their Congressional Representatives expressing their displeasure over FCC 21-22.

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

The Gettysburg and what's left of the field office people are amazing, caring people. The closer one gets to the Portals II, the more one smells the sewage odor that's usually masked by lavender hygiene product that wafts through the air in D.C. The reality of LightSquared/Ligado is probably closer to them wanting to line up their next career after public service.

Some people never figured how pervasive GPS is. It's not just navigation or driving directions, as the marketing people tried to spin it in the early days. I wrote an article about this in 2012 for a trade journal. We can include master oscillators for simulcast and precision timebases, network synchronization, infrastructure synchronization (even traffic lights), cellular systems, NTP servers, AVL... I can't locate the article and Elsevier removed them from their website, but there was much more.

So, we'll sacrifice an entire industry built around a major feat of engineering for just another terrestrial data-dump service.

I had a GPS handbook from the mid 80's that I think was from Efratom titled "GPS the fourth utility" or something like that.

 

[902]

I found the article! I'm kinda impressed it's still archived out there. I sent you both links to it.

 

[mmckenna]

I found the article! I'm kinda impressed it's still archived out there. I sent you both links to it.

Thanks, I'll take a read later on tonight.

 

[Project25_MASTR]

I found the article! I'm kinda impressed it's still archived out there. I sent you both links to it.

I would very much love to read that article.

 

[wd8chl]

They just didn't define what "few" actually meant!

I remember rebanding was supposed to take 3 years. Hah!

 

[izzyj4]

Well...................Look who's back!

Push to Talk PTT and Cellular Mobile Solutions • NEXTEL™ Communications

NEXTEL™ Communications provides a robust portfolio of solutions for your business, with the service, coverage, and rugged capability NEXTEL™ is renowned for.

www.nextelcommunications.com

 

[mmckenna]

Well...................Look who's back!

Push to Talk PTT and Cellular Mobile Solutions • NEXTEL™ Communications

NEXTEL™ Communications provides a robust portfolio of solutions for your business, with the service, coverage, and rugged capability NEXTEL™ is renowned for.

www.nextelcommunications.com

Oh, well, not really.
Just someone who bought the name and started sticking it on CCR's that have an LTE card in them. Nothing like the old Nextel.
They were at one of the trade shows back in 2019. I looked at them and talked a bit, but I wouldn't have wasted my money on it.
Just another company that takes a well known name, sticks it on Chinese crap, and sells it to the unknowing.

 

[speedway_navigator]

The
'Disclaimer: NEXTEL™ Communications is not affiliated with Sprint Communications Inc.'
message is hard to see with the graphics background. At least they didn't put that background in the about us page.

But then they don't have an about us page.

 

[izzyj4]

Oh, well, not really.
Just someone who bought the name and started sticking it on CCR's that have an LTE card in them. Nothing like the old Nextel.
They were at one of the trade shows back in 2019. I looked at them and talked a bit, but I wouldn't have wasted my money on it.
Just another company that takes a well known name, sticks it on Chinese crap, and sells it to the unknowing.

I saw that, but figured it would be a good chuckle do to the fact that the rebanding started because of their interference. Nextel was great until Sprint go their hands on them. I had a Nextel for years. Unfortunately too the technology didn't keep up.

The
'Disclaimer: NEXTEL™ Communications is not affiliated with Sprint Communications Inc.'
message is hard to see with the graphics background. At least they didn't put that background in the about us page.

But then they don't have an about us page.

I saw that too, I forget who bought the name.