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Re: GPS Accuracy Now.
From: Aubrey O?Callaghan
Date: 2000 May 03, 08:42 EDT
From: Aubrey O?Callaghan
Date: 2000 May 03, 08:42 EDT
I was sailing last week from Trinidad to Venezuela and using my Garmin 128 I noticed the error was down to 33 feet, much lower than I generally find. When was the selective availability removed.... Aubrey. ==================== At 16:33 02-05-00 -0400, you wrote: >With the reality that the government has now taken off "selective >availability", does this mean that the DGPS is now an obsolete piece of >equipment? What kind of accuracy can one expect to be the norm now? 1 - 5 >meters? Does anyone know? > >Ed