Subject: Problem for boaters and APRS?
From: "KØHB"
Date: 12/15/2004 10:23 PM Central Standard Time
Message-id: t

A friend sent me the link below. At first I thought it had to be an April
Fool
joke, but apparently The Shrub really IS that stupid!


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...ellites.html?e
x=1104168601&ei=1&en=4e6b58c489759881

I'd ask you where you've been, Hans, but I know the question's rhetorical.

Slick Willy specifically stated that he was authorizing the deactivation
of accuracy inhibitors for non-military users based upon the pemise that
American military commanders could re-activate it, or the President could order
it's complete isolation from non-authorized users. That was in 1993 or 1994, I
believe.

WHY, Hans, would the United States NOT act to either "desensitize" the GPS
net, or completely remove it from use for the criteria set forth in the
article...?!?!

Is it your contention that, given a set of "extreme criteria" (attack on
the United States, overt acts of war, etc), that we should leave the net "open"
regardless...???

What was stated in the article is NOTHING NEW!

Steve, K4YZ