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Re: GPS Accuracy Now.
From: Aubrey O?Callaghan
Date: 2000 May 03, 12:53 EDT
From: Aubrey O?Callaghan
Date: 2000 May 03, 12:53 EDT
I was referring to the EPE... Garmin call this estimated position error In fact my passage was on the 30th. April, so selective availability must have still been in place. It was just that I had never consciously noted a value of EPE to be as small as 33 feet. Aubrey. ========================================== At 11:15 03-05-00 -0400, you wrote: >Monday, May 1 SA was removed. > >How did you measure the error at 33 feet while at sea? If >you mean the self-reported DOP that has nothing to do with >SA, but more with the particular distribution of sats at >the time. > >On Wed, 3 May 2000 08:42:39 -0400, Aubrey O'Callaghan >wrote: > > >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.... > > > > > >Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjoa >Senior Editor Electronic Products >etaoin shrdlu