vic008 17 Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 Guy on the talkback, saying something is going to happen to gps over 10 year old inthe next couple of years. Didnt quite hear what but didnt sound good. Anybody? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MarkMT 68 Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 I keep seeing online ads that seem to be saying something similar. I've never clicked any of them - all look a bit dodgy in a 'world is coming to an end' kind of way...all I know is someone's working pretty hard to sell me something. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Island Time 1,235 Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 Bollocks. GPS has a sat replacement program. Currently on my cellphone, I can se the USA gps system, the Russian glonass system, the Chinese one will soon cover the planet, and I see a couple of the Japanese ones as well. You can download an app to identify which systems you can see. Forgot it’s name right now, I’ll look tomorrow. Even if gps fell over, plenty of other providers.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mcp 32 Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 Bollocks. GPS has a sat replacement program. Currently on my cellphone, I can se the USA gps system, the Russian glonass system, the Chinese one will soon cover the planet, and I see a couple of the Japanese ones as well. You can download an app to identify which systems you can see. Forgot it’s name right now, I’ll look tomorrow. Even if gps fell over, plenty of other providers.... and the Galileo system. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
markm 30 Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 True, but very misleading in the way it's presented. Some very old GPS receiver chips have a date calculation based issue whereby the chip can only support dates up until sometime in about two years or so. These units may have problems from that point on. So, GPS will fail not really, some old GPS receivers yes, probably. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beccara 25 Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 Bingo Markm! https://www.orolia.com/resources/blog/lisa-perdue/2018/gps-2019-week-rollover-what-you-need-know. April 6 2019 will cause a few issues on very old kit Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crazyhorse 47 Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 and the Galileo system. And the "oh golly gosh" system too! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
vic008 17 Posted February 17, 2019 Author Share Posted February 17, 2019 Thanks Mark, that was along the lines I heard. Wonder is my old Navman 5600 likely affected.. And then I would need to update the chip? Once asked here for how you do that and cost but got no answer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Island Time 1,235 Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Vic, that's likely because you can't easily do that. It's almost certainly not in a socket, but surface mount on an obsolete board. As per the link above though, you may be able to update the firmware, if a later version is available. Check the manufacturer's website. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crazyhorse 47 Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Hmmm...No one asked about the "golly gosh" system. Didn't know this until this subject turned up and did a little research. India has their own system! Even better, its all geostationary satellites so not in our sky only for India. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SloopJohnB 322 Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Just polishing up the old sextant and putting in new batteries in the 2 band radio and digging out the air almanacs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Vorpal Blade 89 Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 Just polishing up the old sextant and putting in new batteries in the 2 band radio and digging out the air almanacs. You will probably be needing to feed up the pigeons as well just to make sure comms stay working too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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