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#GPS Error

    06-Jan-95 03:44:17
Sb: #161605-#GPS Error
Fm: Don Kenney 72630,3560
To: Lanny R. Ream 73512,1163
Lanny I've been out of touch with the satellite business for decades, but I did work with satellite tracking in the 1960s. I know that enormous advances have been made, and they need to have been, because in the 1960s we didn't know where ANYTHING was to 50 meter accuracy. At the couple of meter level, the earth is not an oblate spheroid, and satellite orbits are not exactly ellipses. While it is possible under certain circumstances to measure some distances with great precision that doesn't mean that it's easy, or even possible, to convert those distance measurements into relative distances on the surface of the Earth with anything like the precision you can measure the distances to. Don