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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
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To: dwight martin who wrote (4256)11/3/2000 12:32:30 PM
From: John Walliker  Read Replies (3) of 197217
 
dwight,

Yes but GPS takes too long, sometimes minutes, while SnapTrac takes ten seconds.

The results I quoted only apply when the receiver has been tracking for a while - there is no doubt that snaptrac greatly enhances the ability to work in difficult locations. However, the enormous advantage that snaptrac had over ordinary GPS in otherwise good conditions has diminished through the removal of SA, the effects of which snaptrac minimised through providing differential GPS.

This means that in good conditions, with the GPS receiver stabilised, there is little advantage to snaptrac. However, in poor conditions or shortly after a GPS receiver has been switched on snaptrac makes a huge difference.

John
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