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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ?FCC Wants Alternatives to GPS, Raising Possibility of Starlink
 Involvement?
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:36:09 -0500
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On 3/10/2025 5:53 PM, Alistair Tyrrell wrote:
> In article <vqnhd9$1hd22$2@dont-email.me>, lynnmcguire5
> @gmail.com says...
>>
>> On 3/8/2025 8:44 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> ??Continuing to rely so heavily on one system leaves us exposed,? says
>>>> FCC Chair Brendan Carr.?
>>>
>>> In other words, the trump oligarchy wants to feed even more public
>>> money into the pockets of his cronies.
>>
>> Sigh.  More TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome).
>>
>> Shooting down thousands of Starlink satellites is infinitely harder that
>> shooting down 31 GPS satellites.
>>
>> And, there is no backup for the current GPS system.
>>      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Backup_system
>>
>> Lynn
> 
> My Garmin devices use GPS and / or GLONASS and / or
> Galileo, it's a menu config option.
> https://support.garmin.com/en-GB/?faq=
> 13CvcPK8Um0mekc3F2eVmA

I did not know that.  I am not sure that I would trust a Russian GPS 
system.  In fact, I am not sure that I would trust an EU system either.

Lynn