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To: Bill Wexler who wrote (612)	4/14/1998 10:38:00 PM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1361

Mr. Bill Wexler, You are repeatedly stating information that conflicts with with the official sources of authority for the NavStar GPS It is -indeed - a "non issue" since the EOW has absolutely no bearing in calculating current position. A very old unit may display the wrong calendar date as a result of EOW miscalculation. A relatively trivial problem. The US Air Force, who maintain the NavStar GPS system, say that "GPS End of Week (EOW) Rollover may cause a 'crash' of a receiver/system." (http://gps.laafb.af.mil/y2000/rollov.htm) The US Navy states "Some receivers may display inaccurate date information, some may also calculate incorrect navigation solutions." (http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/gps_week.html) the facts -- as I understand them The GPS uses satellites with orbit altitudes such that the satellites repeat the same track and configuration over any point approximately each 24 hours (4 minutes earlier each day). An identical, time-of-day derived, pseudo-random number stream, produced simultaneously by all satellites and receivers, is used for triangulation purposes and receiver clock synchronization purposes. GPS receivers use a 10-bit field to calculate the system date, based on an offset since January 1980. Every 19 years, the field resets to zero as specified by the design. Poorly designed receivers did not take this in to account and after August 22, 1999 may incorporate an invalid basis week in their calculations. The unit may become confused, which is why the government GPS sites give the warnings that they do.

To: Bill Wexler who wrote (612)	4/19/1998 11:27:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 1361

As I sit in front of my radiation emitting monitor, I am wondering how the Pharmaceutical companies are going to benefit from the Y2K hysteria. If this mass hysteria keeps up, Prozac, Xanax, Ativan, etc, prescriptions are going to sky rocket.