[time-nuts] From GPS World - Lightsquared has been given the goahead

[Mike S]

At 09:45 AM 2/2/2011, jimlux wrote...
>what was interesting is that the jamming/fail to get fix was at a 
>closer distance for the consumer receiver than for the FAA approved 
>receiver for aircraft.  Maybe it's better signal processing in the 
>(presumably newer) consumer receiver.

Or maybe they modelled terrestrial attenuation 
(buildings/trees/terrain) of the interfering signal for the consumer 
unit, but assumed line-of-sight for the aviation one. That would more 
closely mimic real world usage conditions.