RE: [Paddlewise] [PDXseakayaker] GPS Dry Bag Question?

From: Mike Baum <mikebaum_at_vp-photo.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 07:09:59 -0800
<<Wade snipped<<I was just concerned rather the cell phone would
interupt or alter the GPS from transmitting to the satelites.

Your thoughts?>>

 

Good question. We know the airlines are concerned about the use of cell
phones and gps devices while flying. It's a real concern. Hold your cell
phone close to an AM radio and listen to the static. Especially when it
transmits. Will the phone affect the gps? Maybe. I suspect that if it does
it would be limited to reception and not accuracy. Do what you did when you
got the gps, take it out in the backyard and give it a try. Let us know.

 

I can't imagine a problem with the phone from the gps. Although, just
because a gps is only a receiver doesn't mean that it won't produce some
interference. 

 

I'm convinced that all the random radio interference floating around out
there is the reason I can't remember things like I did forty years ago. ;-)

 

Mike

 



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