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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: RE: Re: Difference between GPS and measured distace. Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 14:22:10 -0500 Organization: Yellow Jersey, Ltd. Lines: 38 Message-ID: <v865p1$2gfi$1@dont-email.me> References: <ItvpO.115575$BYv6.6500@fx09.iad> <NDvpO.697397$zXH9.679428@fx01.ams4> <CCwpO.50105$5Mb7.8596@fx47.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 21:22:09 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="868da7efbb6e7c529e94a5dfc8f6c813"; logging-data="82418"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+G97pd6WESROfkzvmViL5a" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:8KLCJHrbwZ8gU5L2pgnvFop1uCQ= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <CCwpO.50105$5Mb7.8596@fx47.iad> Bytes: 2468 On 7/28/2024 2:04 PM, Tom Kunich wrote: > On Sun Jul 28 17:57:01 2024 Roger Merriman wrote: >> Tom Kunich <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> T have been doing a route past the airport and back that has pretty large >>> variations in distance on the Garmin but mostly 25 miles. Yesterday I >>> installed a wheel sensor on the bike and added it to the sensor group. >>> The 25 mile route came in at 27 miles. Now upon occasion it showed that >>> distance on straight GPS but it appears that civilian GPS is pretty easy to interfere with. >>> >> You?ve done something wrong to be getting that degree of inaccuracy. If >> it?s GPS drift is possible to map that. >> >> I use GPS only, but even so very minimal deviations certainly not into >> miles or kilometres! >> >> Roger Merriman >> > > > > This only occurs around the airport and not up in the hills. So I think that it is due to radio interference. or perhaps: https://spectrum.ieee.org/faa-files-reveal-a-surprising-threat-to-airline-safety-the-us-militarys-gps-tests https://www.gps.gov/spectrum/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/10/cause-is-unknown-for-mysterious-gps-outage-that-rerouted-texas-air-traffic/ Nice phrase in that one, "experiencing GPS anomalies". Just like you! -- Andrew Muzi am@yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1 April, 1971