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Could DVB-H be a replacement for GPS?

article published on 25 June, 2008

A California company has just successfully demonstrated new positioning technology similar to GPS, but which utilizes DVB-H mobile television broadcasts in place of GPS satellite signals. The company's name is Rosum and their technology is intended as a way to augment, or even completely replace GPS in certain applications. The test was conducted using a DVB-H trial network in the UK ... [ read the full article ]

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tripplite
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_ 		25. June 2008 @ 14:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
military and civilian infrastructure depends on those satellites....i wonder what would happen if they all went out at the same time....some solar wind.....some force of nature\m/
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DXR88
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_ 		25. June 2008 @ 16:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
well the military Would Say, oh Sh*t.

And i would say wtf i pay you guys $125.00 a month and your saying your satellites gone.

most civilians would run around like headless chickens, see just crank up the wattage on that there base station and you have a tv transmitter
powerfull enough to make some very angry British freinds
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blueroad
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_ 		26. June 2008 @ 09:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
lol might be stupid but if youve ever seen smallville (in particular the 2 zod episodes) you might get an idea what would happen..i guess that without technology after so long being depended on it wed be back to behaving like animals..no laws no nuthin
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tripplite
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_ 		26. June 2008 @ 21:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
nah not in good old american.....everybody would print out "How to build a satellite" of google... start their own business and new satellites would be up in a week....but of course our brothers in the eAst would have built them LOL




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