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The GPS/GNSS newsletter by Navtech Seminars
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the GPS professional's resource since 1984. |
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Editor-in-Chief:
Carolyn P. McDonald (send news items to cmcdonald@navtechgps.com)
Technical
Editor: Keith D. McDonald (satconsult@aol.com)
Production
& Design: Yelena Teterina (yteterina@navtechgps.com)
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Included
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1)
ION GNSS 2004 call for abstracts that are due March 12
2)
San Diego March course dates have been adjusted
3)
San Diego Mission Valley rooms may still be available
4)
Aviation week item on Galileo
(with our own editorial comments by Keith
McDonald)
5)
Navtech's 2004 public course schedule after March
6)
Links to various navigation industry newsletters
7)
Meetings calendar: see two new items about a Simulator
User's
Conference
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1)
ION GNSS 2004 call for abstracts that are due March 12
The ION has sent a notice out to
remind folks that abstracts for the Sept. 21-24,
2004 meeting in Long Beach are due this Friday, March 12. The
meeting, in Portland Oregon last
year, has been renamed to be ION GNSS 2004.
Go to www.ion.org
and click on ION GNSS 2004, then the "Abstract Submission
Form" link. This is the largest GPS meeting in the world;
be there! Also, remember that
Navtech Seminars presents two days of short courses
prior to the conference. Courses will be available no later than
June 1 on the web. www.ion.org
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2)
San Diego March course dates have been adjusted
For a chart showing the
rearrangement of course dates go to:
http://www.navtechgps.com/seminars/0401SanDiego_course_chart.asp
THESE COURSES START MONDAY, March
15 , SO IF YOU WANT TO ATTEND, IT'S TIME TO LET US KNOW SO THAT
WE CAN HAVE COURSE MATERIALS READY FOR YOU.
WE NOW HAVE PLENTY OF PEOPLE IN EACH OF THE REMAINING COURSES,
WILL HAVE AN EQUIPMENT DEMO BY FRANCK BOYNTON ON MONDAY EVENING,
AND ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO A VERY PLEASANT AND INTERESTING WEEK
IN SAN DIEGO WITH YOU.
NOTE:
Course 356 and its derivatives 111, 122, 217 and 356B are all
scheduled on their original dates. Check the others below for
their date shifts.
and it's components known as...
NEW
DATES (Note
that you can take both 331 and 323 if you wish.)
POSTPONEMENT
- 212:
Test, Evaluation and Signal Simulation
taught by Mr. Peter Boulton
NOTE:
This course, originally planned for
March 19 has been postponed until Sept 20, when it will be
presented as part of the ION GPS/GNSS tutorials in Long
Beach. We apologize for this rescheduling.
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3)
San Diego Mission Valley rooms may still be available
The Doubletree Mission Valley in
San Diego is holding a block of rooms for our
group for the March 15-19 courses. Please be sure to call them
at (619)297-5466 for a room
as soon as possible. And identify yourself as being
with the NAVTECH ROOM BLOCK. Rooms MAY still be available, but
can no longer guarantee a
room or our special rate of $135 commercial and $110 government
(But I'd ask!)
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4)
Aviation week item on Galileo
(with our own editorial comments by Keith
McDonald)
Aviation Week & Space
Technology, March 8 issue carries an article on
the new cooperation between the US and Europe on GALILEO. You
can view it on their website
at:
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst&id=news/03084wna.xml
Comments by Keith McDonald
Technical Director, Navtech Seminars & GPS Supply:
"Aviation Week in its March 8th issue reported that the US
and Europe have apparently
come together in agreement on cooperative arrangements for
Galileo and GPS. Originally, the
Pentagon was much opposed to Galileo and many
in Europe saw this as a desire for a US monopoly in the
navigation satellites field.
However, a US representative after the Brussels meeting was
quoted as stating that "We've resolved all substantive
issues." The US
reluctantly agreed to include the military signal (M-code) in
the agreement with the
Europeans' encrypted Public Regulated Signal (PRS) according
to Heinz Hilbrecht, of the European Commission who led the
European Union delegation. He
further stated that the agreement " ...is not just
an agreement that's tailor -made to protect the M-code ... The
U.S. has agreed to study
means of protecting the PRS."
Also, it appears that the US and the EU have finally agreed upon
a common open signal
definition. There was considerable earlier US concern relating
to the EU's proposed M-code overlay
which is no longer a candidate. The agreed
upon signal is a split spectrum BOC (Binary Offset Carrier) 1,1
in lieu of the previously
discussed BOC (1.5,1.5) and the BOC(2,2) signal structures.
Hilbrecht indicated that their PRS would be optimized and that
the signal specifications would be
provided to the US as soon as they are completed.
The US and EU also agreed on a
future common open signal structure to be broadcast
on GPS III as well as Galileo. There was further agreement that
"Galileo services will not
degrade the navigation capabilities of U.S. and NATO
forces."
Surprisingly (at least to many of
us), the business development manager for the
Galileo Joint Undertaking (JU), Mike Mattner, was quoted at the
Brussels meeting as saying
"I think the U.S. should join the JU." This may
indicate an opening for some
additional business opportunities for US industry. The
first two Galileo spacecraft will be launched into orbit by the
Russian Soyuz boosters. The
first launch is scheduled for 2005."
Editorial comments by Keith
McDonald (This article is found in the March 8th issue of
Aviation Week & Space Technology on page 24.)
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5)
Navtech's 2004 public course schedule after March
***May 16,
2004 *******************
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
(Beautiful time of year)
Tutorials on Galileo and
LORAN prior to GNSS, Sunday afternoon. Details to be
announced soon.
*** June 1,
2004 *******************
The Hyatt Long Beach, Long
Beach, California (Perfect weather)
Tutorial prior to ISCe (International Satellite &
Communications Expo)
*** June
14-18, 2004 *******************
The Sheraton Barcelo
Annapolis, Maryland (Washington DC area) (Lovely time of year)
and it's components known as...
*** September
20-21, 2004 *******************
The Hyatt Long Beach
Long Beach, California (Perfect weather)
Navtech's tutorials prior to ION
GNSS 2004 (same series as ION GPS/GNSS 2003 in
Portland, Oregon, just a revised name)
These tutorials (32 half days in
a 2-day period) will be announced by June 1,
2004. Prices will be the same as 2003. See www.navtechgps.com
under seminars for our 2003
series, for an idea of what we will be offering.
*** December
6-10, 2004 *******************
The Chateau Sonesta New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana (The best time of all to be in festive
New Orleans)
and its components, known as....
*** Franck Boynton of our Navtech
GPS Supply will be on hand in San Diego, Annapolis,
and New Orleans to demonstrate equipment. Call if you have
special requests.***
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6)
Links to various navigation industry newsletters
Military and Space magazine's newsletter
is found at:
http://mae.pennnet.com/Search/index.cfm?Section=Archives
The European Space Agency publishes an
EGNOS newsletter that is called EGNOS NEWS,
focusing both on EGNOS and on satellite navigation issues.
http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/egnos/estb/newsletter.htm
To learn about the world's most relied
upon GPS technical magazine, GPS World,
go to http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld
For the authoritative Galileo newsletter,
go to:
http://www.genesis-office.org/galileo_newsletters/galileo_newsletters.html
For the archives of the Locus Inc.
newsletter on LORAN positioning and timing,
go to: http://www.locusinc.com/loran_newsletter.html
For the electronic on-line magazine for
GPS professional users published by Matteo
Luccio, go to www.gpsuser.com
(the latest issue is Nov. 13, 2003)
For the newsletter published by
Professional Surveyor Magazine, Marc Cheeves,
Publisher, go to http://www.profsurv.com/newsArc.htm
Continuously updated newsletter by the US
Coast Guard's Navigation Center "NAVCEN"
is at http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/
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7)
Meetings calendar: see two new items about a Simulator
User's
Conference
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"CGSIC 43rd Meeting The next meeting of the CGSIC will be
held in Arlington, VA March
10-11, 2004 . For more information and registration go to:
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/cgsic/meetings/43rd_CGSIC_Meeting.htm
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March 15-19, 2004 Navtech courses
in San Diego, California
(PLEASE NOTE THERE ARE SOME DATE CHANGES WITHIN THIS WEEK)
THE CHANGES ARE NOW ONLINE AT OUR WEBSITE at http://www.navtechgps.com/seminars/0401SanDiego_course_chart.asp
These courses will be at the
beautiful Doubletree Hotel Mission Valley
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March 28-31, 2004
Toronto Convention Centre
GeoTec Event
Theme: "Pathways to Integration"
www.GeoPlace.com/gt
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April 1-2, 2004, Washington DC
Spirent's Simulator Users Conference. You may access information
and
registration form at www.spirentfederal.com/conference
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April 6-7, 2004, Anaheim,
California
Spirent's Simulator Users Conference will be held here as well.
You may access information
and registration form at www.spirentfederal.com/conference
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May 16-19, 2004
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
GNSS 2004
Theme: "Merging Science and Applications"
(Navtech will be giving a half day tutorial on Sunday afternoon,
May 16, 2004, on Galileo.
Plans to be announced later.)
www.enc-gnss2004.com
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June 1, 2004
Navtech tutorial prior to ISCe (see details in #2 above)
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June 7-9, 2004
ION 60th Annual Meeting
Co-Sponsored by Air Force Institute of Technology and CIGTF
Dayton Marriott Hotel
Dayton, Ohio ( see www.ion.org
)
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June 14-18, 2004
Sheraton Barcelo
Navtech courses in Annapolis, Maryland (see Item #2 above for
details)
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June 22-23, 2004
Munich, Germany
EURAN 2004
email schulze-thesing.dgon.bonn@t-online.de
for further information
Theme: "Integration of GPS, EGNOS, Galileo and LORAN-C/EUROFIX"
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September 21-24, 2004 (Preceded
by Navtech's tutorials at the Hyatt Long Beach
Sept. 20-21)
ION GNSS 2004
Long Beach Convention Center
Long Beach, California
(Formerly known as ION GPS, and
then ION GPS/GNSS, still presented
by the ION's Satellite Division)
www.ion.org
for both registration
and hotel reservations (but not until about
Jan. 1, 2004. (or www.GPSetc.com
to view Navtech's tutorials by
June 1, 2004. The 2003
schedule, which is similar, will be carried on our site
until replaced with the 2004 schedule.)
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The 36th Annual PTTI Meeting
Hyatt Regency
Washington, DC, December 7-9, 2004
Contact Sheila Faulkner at: mailto: bopenyan@aol.com
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2004 International Symposium on
GPS/GNSS
Sydney, Australia, 6-8 December 2004
http://www.gnss2004.org
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The 37th Annual PTTI Meeting
Vancouver, BC, Canada, August, 2005
Will meet with the IEEE Frequency Control Symposium.
Contact Sheila Faulkner at: mailto: bopenyan@aol.com
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