GPS Sync Outage

Tom Beecher beecher at beecher.cc
Mon Jan 6 18:33:11 UTC 2020


GPS != GLONASS

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 1:32 PM Andy Ringsmuth <andy at andyring.com> wrote:

> “It’s a glitch in the Matrix.”
>
> Momentarily donning my tinfoil hat here, as I certainly don’t claim to
> know the nitty gritty of how GPS timing works, but…
>
> What if, since the GPS system is operated by the US Air Force, there was
> something slipped into the GPS system relating to timing or accuracy or
> similar due to the events in the tinderbox of the Middle East?
>
> </tinfoil_hat>
>
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> Andy Ringsmuth
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> andy at andyring.com
>
> > On Dec 31, 2019, at 4:20 PM, Alex Bradley <alex at alexbradley.net> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, lots of our key wireless network timing elements reported GPS
> timing sync failure during the past two hours.
> >
> > Appears to be resolving now, within the past few minutes.
> >
> >
> > On 12/31/2019 02:08 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
> >> Is anyone else seeing GPS timing source outages across the U. S. In the
> last two hours?
> >
>
>
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