Cross Post from Water Rocket liost (what that's got to do with GPS I dunno
but ... :-))
Interesting to see that some dod indeed die. Roll on Y2K.



RM

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Company I work for is doing roaring trade resurrecting aviation units that
don't
want to play, lots of them, even units the manufactures said would be fine.
Makes
you wonder about Y2K roll on 1JAN00

carl wrote:

> hmmm, I guess there were no earth-shattering events following this, or
does
> anyone know otherwise?
> Carl
> Don Wilkins wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 21 Aug 1999 03:03:26 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> > >Just to remind you - today is "LDOG" - the Last Day of GPS.
> > >
> > >At midnight the GPS date goes back to zero. On BBC radio 4 news they
> > >announced that all 24 satellites are expected to continue functioning,
but
> > >receiving devices of the original type MAY CEASE TO FUNCTION. (this is
> > >because the GPS devices that are not aware of the roll-over to week
1024
> > >will think that it is week zero and the satelites will be somewhere
> > >unexpected.) GPSs that do know what to expect have been on sale for
quite a
> > >while so most people should be okay >;->
> > >
> > The Garmin site www.garmin.com discusses this and will tell you how it
> > affects their different models. There are some downloads available to
> > change some programming.
> >
> > Mine is supposed to be unaffected but first thing Sunday morning I
> > will take a peek to see if they are correct.