From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 6 9: 9:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD13E37BBCF for ; Sat, 6 May 2000 09:09:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost.freebsd.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA09042; Sat, 6 May 2000 18:08:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: Warner Losh , Wes Peters , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPS heads up In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 06 May 2000 10:03:29 MDT." <200005061603.KAA17604@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 18:08:30 +0200 Message-ID: <9040.957629310@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200005061603.KAA17604@nomad.yogotech.com>, Nate Williams writes: >I disagree. I routineles pick up 10-11 satellites, and I'm about >half-way between the pole and the equator. Heck, I just looked, and >I've got 8 locked on right now. Right, 8 is the norm. When you have 10 or 11 a couple or four of them are so low on the horizon that they hardly matter. >> Here where I live (56 north) about 30% of the sky is never covered by >> a satelite because of the inclination of the satelites being non-zero. > >Wow, the worst I've *ever* seen was 4 satellites here, but it may be >that the GPS satellites have orbits that prefer the US? Not really, but they don't bother going over the poles. Plot the orbits based on the almanac and you can see the pattern. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message