 | GPS AEP 5.5C, the Rest of the Story: We Went to the Source February 24, 2010
Article By : Don Jewell If you are interested in the Global Positioning System (GPS) and are not related to Rip Van Winkle, then you have heard about the controversy surrounding the latest AEP ground control segment software upgrade, designated as version 5.5C.More>> |
 | It's a Mad, Mad, Maddenless World February 10, 2010
Article By : Don Jewell Call it Madden withdrawal. It’s bad enough that I just endured Super Bowl “XLIV” without the smooth and engaging color commentary of the iconic John Madden, the legendary Hall of Fame, Super Bowl (XI) winning coach and virtual football entrepreneur. This year I patently missed John’s pithy...More>> |
| New GPS Configuration: 24+3=Win/Win January 12, 2010
Article By : Don Jewell Numbers and geometry matter where GPS is concerned, and many of you have read these words in many of my columns or heard them in my presentations. Fortunately the U.S. military must have been listening as well, because just last week the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command General Chilton approved ...More>> |
 | Kenaz and Touch Inspect: Must-Have Products for the Warfighter December 9, 2009
Article By : Don Jewell Here we are in the month of December. This is where I usually recap the articles and events of the past year, but this year I would like to look ahead and allow you to peruse past issues to your heart’s content, because I have come across a couple of critical new capabilities for our warfighters....More>> |
 | Loran: What the President Meant to Say Was... November 11, 2009
Article By : Don Jewell “What the General meant to say was…” This Henny Youngmanish one-liner has probably been around the military for as long as there have been general officers and those that endeavor to protect them from themselves. I am not picking on generals because certainly we all misspeak from time to...More>> |
 | Trimble Yuma: The Perfect Handheld GPS Transceiver? October 14, 2009
Article By : Don Jewell What do you think of when you hear the name Yuma? Do you think of a small city in Arizona or do you think of all the tough guy Westerns named after that town, such as: “3:10 to Yuma” originally starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin, or Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, and Peter Fonda in the remake....More>> |
 | Educate Early and Often; Plus, Fed Up with Acquisition Reform September 9, 2009
Article By : Don Jewell GPS 101 and perpetual acquisition reform, two of my recent column topics that have struck a nerve and — wonder of wonders — more than 98 percent of you agree. We need more GPS 101 or GPS education and perpetual acquisition reform is definitely not the answer.More>> |
 | Debonair Webinar August 12, 2009
Article By : Don Jewell Several months ago, Kristina Panter, the debonair publisher of GPS World magazine, called with a work-related proposition: Would I be willing to host/moderate and/or speak at the first Defense-based webinar sponsored by GPS World and a then unnamed commercial sponsor, which later turned out to be...More>> |
 | Time for GPS 101 July 14, 2009
Article By : Don Jewell The scary part is that those who made the map comments might be of voting age, and if they are so completely ignorant of what GPS really does for our global community today, how many others out there are just as uninformed? And whose fault is it?More>> |
 | Expert Advice: Cause Identified for Pseudorange Error from New GPS Satellite SVN49 July 13, 2009
Article By : Richard B. Langley The GPS Wing and its contractors have traced the cause of pseudorange errors on L1 and L2 broadcast by the newest GPS satellite, SVN49, to the manner in which the L5 signal demonstration payload was added to the satellite. Signal leakage between the two input ports of the antenna coupler network...More>> |
