Re: gps

On Jun 28, 3:01 pm, gclgour...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On Jun 28, 10:33 am, Gene Wagenbreth <genewxxx@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > GPS satellites are not geosynchronous
>
> You have to be able to identify individual satellites & have pre-
> information about their orbits.
> I will guess identity is done through frequencies, so dopler variance
> wouldn't help with that.
> Unique identifiable characteristics of orbits or orbit relation****ps
> could work,
> again dependent on pre-information about which satellites did what.
>
> If you can identify dopler variance, how would you do that without
> getting a frequency reading?
> Only something very odd like a receiver that only identified frequency
> differentials withoug identifying the actual frequency would apply, i
> think.
> or maybe you are you thinking of using reflective radar on the
> satellites?
> As if their transmission capabilities have shut down?
> I am not sure if that would exceed radar distance capabilities.
> ie. the reflection wave might be too weak.

dog days of summer?
anyway. if i know the sattelite is at altitude 600 miles directly over
the wa****ngton monument and is moving southwest at 17,222 mph and the
dopler ****ft is that of 100 Hz above 1 mega Hertz, can i calculate my
position on earth?
and don't say it's the basement of the alamo.