CoCom regulations and GPS receivers for balloons and cubesats

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16 points | by vinnyglennon 3 hours ago ago

4 comments

  • awesomeusername 2 hours ago

    Seems fairly useless to me, for a few dollars I can sample the L1 frequency with a dumb device which has no idea of speed or altitude, and do the calcs with FOSS which is in the wild.

    Basically a rule which inconveniences the honest and has zero impact on the bad dudes, whoever they are

    • inigyou an hour ago

      Have you done that?

      • londons_explore an hour ago

        I have. It works.

        Used a huge amount of compute though and takes a long time to get a fix.

        • inigyou 36 minutes ago

          Maybe that's why nobody else does