gavreid
Pretty Words...
You jest...
UK building its own sat nav system
- Thread starter Bob McC
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You jest...
russel
./_dazed_and_confused
Darth Vader
From the Dark Side
Just in case this is not a joke we are already a part of the Internet. Any idea what the word Internet actually means?
Cheers,
DV
sean99
pfm Member
It was a joke. I've written large parts of my own TCP/IP stack way back when embedded stacks came with unreasonable licensing terms. Before we were spoiled with the likes of https://lwip.fandom.com/wiki/LwIP_Wiki.
suzywong
Wot, no electrons?
yup, pretty much the same Ignorant stupidity that 51% of the Great British Public showed when they voted for Brexit. The loss of the high-res positioning from Galileo is one of the consequences. But, hey, don’t let the facts get in the way of a good whinge.
Darth Vader
From the Dark Side
sean99
pfm Member
I bow to your superior knowledge and intellect.
russel
./_dazed_and_confused
DV, stop digging!
claire.foxx
-⃝⃤
No no. Keep digging, I want to see where this ends...
Sue Pertwee-Tyr
Accuphase all the way down
It’s going to be shit. Scatalite navigation.
TheDecameron
Unicorns fart glitter.
When Dido’s done with the Covid App, they’ll be putting her on to it. She does after all have sterling experience in communications technology at TalkTalk, she’s a loyal Tory and she knows all about screw ups.
There was an article on the register a while back about the problems with making your own SatNav system (when it was first suggested) and as ever the problem is finding suitable frequencies for such a system. Apparently there basically aren't any available, and to get the international community to shuffle things around to make this possible will take years assuming there is even any incentive for such a change to happen. So basically, even if the UK had suitable satellites in orbit, they wouldn't be able to transmit a signal.
Next up, the GPS receiver chipsets in phones etc would need to know about, and be able to receive the UK signal. This will also be a complicated process. From my reading of the intention, OneWeb own some frequencies which might be of use, so I guess that's the valuable bit not the satellites in orbit.
Here's the article I was thinking about - https://www.theregister.com/2018/12/03/brexit_satellite/
Next up, the GPS receiver chipsets in phones etc would need to know about, and be able to receive the UK signal. This will also be a complicated process. From my reading of the intention, OneWeb own some frequencies which might be of use, so I guess that's the valuable bit not the satellites in orbit.
Here's the article I was thinking about - https://www.theregister.com/2018/12/03/brexit_satellite/
Richard Lines
pfm Member
Good Morning All,
I remember the good old Decca Navigators MK 12 & 21 on BP Tankers of old and looking through to the cockpit of the S61's flying out to the North Sea and seeing them at work there........... It seems a 'no-brainer' to me that the UK Government needs to re-negotiate its way back into the Galileo project??
Regards
Richard
I remember the good old Decca Navigators MK 12 & 21 on BP Tankers of old and looking through to the cockpit of the S61's flying out to the North Sea and seeing them at work there........... It seems a 'no-brainer' to me that the UK Government needs to re-negotiate its way back into the Galileo project??
Regards
Richard
Barrymagrec
pfm Member
Perhaps announcing money for our own project is a clever ploy to concentrate minds in Europe about the advantages of having an extra partner to share the cost..........
No, too clever for this lot.
Rockmeister
pfm Member
Gotta be Kenneth Williams
TheDecameron
Unicorns fart glitter.
My money’s on Barbara Windsor for upbeat ‘hear the British lion roar’announcements of a world beating, game changer nature.Gotta be Kenneth Williams