"KØHB" ) writes:
wrote


Had to do with inhibiting high-accuracy commercial applications like
surveying and precison aircarft navigation AND the competition.


There are industries, including things as basic as grain farming which depend on
the current accuracy of the GPS system.

Some sheet-head with a bomb doesn't need GPS to find a tall building to target,
but many segments of our economy depend on it. Taking down GPS for that reason
is equivalent to taking down the world-wide-web because Tim McVeigh used it to
look up the address of the Federal Building in OKC.

73, de Hans, K0HB

But it is sort of interesting, since it's akin to shutting down radio
stations so they can't be beacons in times of war, and countries taking
down signs so invaders would have a bit more difficulty and lights being
kept low during WWII. In other words, there is precedence.

On the other hand, you're right, it would affect quite a bit at this
point. And unless there is all out war, one has to balance the danger
of something against the inconvenience.

Michael VE2BVW