http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 6:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 7:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/ Maybe the 10m offset will keep them on the road,.......or just skew them further off track, into my living room :D]]>Feb 10th 2010 8:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 6:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 11th 2010 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 6:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/
This is my Droid's wallpaper. Has been for like 4 months--makes me feel special.]]>Feb 10th 2010 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/
Wallpapers make you feel special?]]>Feb 10th 2010 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 6:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 6:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 6:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 6:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 6:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/
it's actually 10 meters, not cm. I would think 10 meters would be bad for a unmanned drone!]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/THE BELLY KNOWS ALL.]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 6:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/images/content/228144main_Red-Dwarf-Flare-Full.jpg]]>Feb 10th 2010 6:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/The Internets come through again! +1]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 7:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/
Thank you!]]>Feb 10th 2010 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 7:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Lets launch missiles at it just like we did to the moon. We'll show those pesky other bodies of the solar system not to fuck with earth!]]>Feb 10th 2010 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Actually the sun has been pretty tame lately. Hence the lack of warming.]]>Feb 10th 2010 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/this is the reason i love this site.. thank you for this]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 7:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/
Good thing I can watch all the shows I like online.]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/I was actually wondering if services like DirecTV or dishnetwork could be affected by something like this. I was going to ask if there were any egg heads in the crowd here who would know if they could possibly be susceptible. Is your comment based on any science or are you just wondering out loud? (which is fine if your are, just curious which)]]>Feb 10th 2010 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Sorry, man, can't help you. I'm just speculating. But really, the rain we've been having lately in the Southeast U.S. is bad enough to knock out our DirecTV, so I won't even notice if the sun flare fries it.]]>Feb 10th 2010 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 7:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Oh, right! It's exactly what happens in the first episode of BBC's scifi series Paradox...]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/One can use GLONASS today, they provide civil signals. There are receivers that are made in USA receivers or you can get Russian too.

Galileo also would experience the same problem as GPS. The problem is that the GPS (or Galileo or GLONASS, or future Chinese system) radio waves have to cross an atmosphere layer called Ionosphere. Such huge solar activity creates "big big mess" in this layer for propagation of radio waves ( these systems operate at 1.2-1.6 GHz).]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/
it should be:

"may be it probably can wake up and head toward a new solar maximum, i guess"

Those astronomers like to be sensationalist and miss to detail all the facts.

For example :THE EARTH WILL BE DESTROYED BY AN ASTEROID (and a small note said :with a probability of 0.0000000000001%).
]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/One can use GLONASS today, they provide civil signals. There are receivers that are made in USA receivers or you can get Russian too.

Galileo also would experience the same problem as GPS. The problem is that the GPS (or Galileo or GLONASS, or future Chinese system) radio waves have to cross an atmosphere layer called Ionosphere. Such huge solar activity creates "big big mess" in this layer for propagation of radio waves ( these systems operate at 1.2-1.6 GHz).]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Sorry for the double comment, it only worked after >10 attempts to post the comment :/]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 7:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/but it wont be accurate.]]>Feb 10th 2010 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 7:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/
Sun. Hot. You guys are killing me.]]>Feb 10th 2010 8:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/
Ugh!]]>Feb 10th 2010 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/
Yep, first thing I thought of when I saw the headline.]]>Feb 10th 2010 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-with-gps-signals/Feb 10th 2010 9:12AM