EDN

Improve Sensitivity of GPS Receiver in Simultaneous GPS Operation

S-GPS (Simultaneous Global Positioning System) is an operation where the reception of GPS signal and the transmission of voice or data signal from the handset, happen at the same time. The interferer ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Potential Effects of Operating a Terrestrial Radio Network Near GPS Frequency Bands Assessed by New Report

WASHINGTON — A new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine assesses the likelihood of harmful interference from Ligado Networks’ authorized ...
ExtremeTech

How to build your own GPS receiver

For a hacker, the best way to understand how a system works is to break it down into its constituent parts, do a hell of a lot of research, and then rebuild it from scratch. Andrew Holme, a British ...
Hackaday

Writing A GPS Receiver From Scratch

GPS is an incredible piece of modern technology. Not only does it allow for locating objects precisely anywhere on the planet, but it also enables the turn-by-turn directions we take for granted these ...
Flying

FCC Approval of 4G Transmitters Threatens GPS

4G or not 4G? That is the question. Wide ranging broadband Internet access via portable devices would sure be great, but it could come at a high cost of GPS functionality. A plan to construct 40,000 ...
EDN

Off-the-shelf jammer tests GPS receiver compliance

Noise Com (Parsippany, NJ; www.noisecom.com) has announced the GPS7500 noise and interference generator, an expandable, easy-to-use platform for testing the susceptibility to interference of GPS ...
GPS World

A grave threat to GPS and GNSS

In the coming months, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may allow high-powered, ground-based, communication transmitters to broadcast at a frequency near GPS L1. U.S. Department of ...
SpaceNews

Germany to become the first foreign military buyer of U.S. jam-resistant GPS receivers

WASHINGTON — Germany has ordered jam-resistant Global Positioning System receivers from the United States military, becoming the first buyer of the advanced GPS user equipment under the Foreign ...
GPS World

Air Force upgrades to better field reference system for testing GPS denial

Initial Operational Capability for the Ultra High-Accuracy Reference System has been declared by the U.S. Air Force. Even when GPS is being completely jammed, UHARS provides extremely accurate ...
ZDNet

Where's the iPod GPS receiver?

There’s currently a lot of hype surrounding Apple’s iPhone (I can call it that now, right?) but the device that I’d really like to see coming out of Cupertino is not a iPod/cellphone hybrid, it’s an ...
Marine Link

Marine Television May Interfere with Navigation Systems

The U.S. Coast Guard warns all mariners that certain marine television antennas may interfere with the performance of Global Positioning System receivers. The interference can result in inaccurate ...