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Date:      Wed, 03 May 2000 20:30:48 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GPS heads up 
Message-ID:  <200005040230.UAA36034@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 May 2000 16:13:40 PDT." <200005032313.QAA65552@apollo.backplane.com> 
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In message <200005032313.QAA65552@apollo.backplane.com> Matthew Dillon writes:
:     No, you can't just average several measurements w/ SA on and expect
:     to get any improvement.  SA isn't just 'noise', it's like a 
:     drunken walker.  All you get when you average several measurements
:     is the location of the drunk.

The SA can be averaged out, but you need to have another source of
time as well as GPS.  GPS alone will give you a grid square you are
in, but the nature of the pseudorandom noise is such that you don't
get a nice sine wave (collapsing for a moment to 1 dimention).  It is
much more distorted than that.

Warner


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