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Re: wearable necessity?

On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 11:10:59PM +0100,  thus spake:
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> Eric Laforest writes:
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> (I've tried operating a Garmin 25 in many locations, including a
>  passenger plane, and I wouldn't get *any* signal on a plane. But I have
>  a growing suspicion of owning a particularly recalcitrant unit)
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Could be.  I've only ever used a Canadian Marconi RT-STAR GPS and
the Garmin...and I suspect the Garmin III+ has an exceptionnaly
good front end receiver.
With an active ant., it's performance at sat. tracking becomes god-like.
I love it when consumer-grade HW actually doesn't suck!

>  > I though so too....
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>  > I brought my radio setup with me on a trip to British Columbia so
>  > I'd have emergency radio and so the guys at work would have a laugh
>  > tracking me over APRS...so naturally I want to try the GPS on the plane.
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> don't know what ARPS is, but you should absolutely, positively avoid
> radiating anything radio with any noticeable RF power within a
> plane. 

Automatic Position Reporting System.
Yes, I had a radio on me in a fanny pack, but I know enough not to
use it on a plane. (I passed my Basic and Advanced Amateur Radio tests
after all.... :)  I just wanted to use the GPS to get pos/alt/hdg/spd.
Perhaps I used the word "radio" somewhere in my request, and the harried
stewardess prob. misunderstood.  It would explain the frustrating and
perplexing reply.

>  > I just can't stand absolute statements without underlying explanation.
> 
> You seem to be oblivious of the fact that most of our civilization

Maybe I have a bit of the Enki-Nature...

> currently operates by ritualized canned algorithms, devised by

Nam-shubs? ;)

> (hopefully) tech-savvy people in charge. 

Definitely not tech-savvy.
Otherwise the PHB would not exist. 

> Never, ever volunteer nonessential information to algorithmically
> controlled people. Much mutual bafflement results, which wastes time
> and requires lots of explanations, which may lead to more
> explanations, etc.

Sounds exactly like feeding unexpected data to a function, and the ensuing
flurry of debugging... ;)

Eric LaForest

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