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Global Positioning System Gps Receiver
1,007 wordsHave you ever been fishing all day and it wasnt going well, until the end of the day when you just found the perfect hot spot. But the problem is that night is about to come and you have to get your boat back to the dock before darkness falls. And you dont want to leave because you are just finally starting to catch big fish and you know you wont be able to find that spot again. So what do you do? You can rely on dumb luck and hope you can find that spot again? Or you can buy a Global Positionin...
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Global Positioning System Gps Receivers
1,243 wordsThe Global Positioning System (GPS), a system of 24 satellites circling the Earth, is a fairly new technology. As with a lot of new technologies there are innumerable advantages and uses but there is also a downside to our increasing reliance on this system. These days GPS is finding its way into cars, boats, planes, construction equipment, movie making gear, farm machinery, even laptop computers. It works by using satellites as reference points to calculate a position somewhere on the earth - a...
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Coast Guard Gps Receivers
1,954 wordsFINDING YOUR WAY. Andrew Smith I couldnt agree more with Kenneth Grahame's Water Rat in Wind in the Willows: There is nothing-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of em, it doesnt matter. Nothing seems really to matter, thats the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you dont; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, youre always busy, and you never do anything ...
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Global Positioning System U S Military
3,776 wordsAs we enter the 21 st century, we are constantly being bombarded with new technologies. From the wireless community to operations that once took weeks to recover and now only take a day or so, our world will never be the same. Another technology that is revolutionizing the world we live in is the Global Positioning System or GPS. The first GPS satellite was called GPS Block I. Launched in 1978, it was a developmental satellite. Another nine Block I satellites were launched through 1988. GPS is t...
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U S Military Global Positioning System
1,395 wordsIn the 1800 s, most things were done using manpower, not machines. To plow a field it used to require a team of horses and a plow. To make butter it required a hand churn. Life was simple and people depended on themselves. In the 1920 s the automobile was a very important technological machine. Instead of a team of horses and a carriage, one could move about more efficiently in an automobile. Through the following years many advances in technology occurred: electric machines, televisions, radios...
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Gps Satellites Gps Receivers
3,463 wordsThe new Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) systems installed in the F- 111 E and EF- 111 A have raised their share of questions, so I have decided to continue my series of Everything You Always Wanted To Know handouts to you pilots, navigators, and maintenance technicians on how the cotton-picked thing works. This informational pamphlet is an overview of the GPS system as a whole, NOT the system- specific hardware that you find in your respective aircraft. Ill cover the basic theory of operati...
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