BBC News: WW2 technology 'Plan B' for GPS

[Phil]

It's journalese for "OH MY GOD, THE GPS IS OUT! HOW WILL WE FIND OUR WAY TO THE BATHROOM???????"

Phil M1GWZ



On 2 Nov 2014, at 15:39, Iain McFadyen wrote:

> Can anyone explain why, in the BBC article, it says...
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> "If we walk over here, this is the radar, and that's not working either."
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> Why would a GPS outage take down primary radar? It would affect the map overlay, but I contend that the primary radar would still function, giving display of coastline, ships and other objects large enough to return energy.
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> I can only think it is journalistic embellishment.
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> Iain
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> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Andre Kesteloot <akesteloot at gmail.com> wrote:
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> WW2 technology 'Plan B' for GPS
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> Technology developed during World War Two is to be used as a back-up for GPS in ports across England and Scotland.
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> Read more:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29758872
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> André N4ICK​
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