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Date:      Wed, 3 May 2000 16:17:17 -0700
From:      "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To:        "Matthew Hunt" <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
Cc:        <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: GPS heads up
Message-ID:  <000501bfb555$b98ff450$021d85d1@youwant.to>
In-Reply-To: <20000503145930.B33563@wopr.caltech.edu>

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> So, I will apply my meager knowledge of pulsar observations to
> guess that the phase difference between the two frequencies gives
> you the integral of the electron number density along the path,
> and hence allows you to measure the delay introduced by the
> ionosphere, and subtract it off?  (I have read elsewhere that
> the ionospheric fluctuations are the largest source of error,
> aside from SA.)

	I was under the impression that after SA (which is now a thing of the
past), the largest single source of error was that the satellites weren't
precisely where they said they were. I remember reading about work to
measure the position of the satellites to accuracies of fractions of a meter
to eliminate this source of error.

	DS



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