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UK getting ready to go it alone on Galileo

Alan Brown Silver badge

"With the UK system being V2000?"

You could argue that position was taken by Beidou v1 or the original prototype French Navigation system that became DORIS.

This would be more like Knock-off Nigel No-mates one which has "Quality Bru^Hitish Merchandise" labels hastily plastered over the "Made in North Bumfuckistan's second-finest sweatshops" labels, where every side of the enclosure is a slightly different shade of "mixed up from all the leftover paint in the cupboard" none of the panels line up when new and the moment you open the cover all the wiring explodes outwards, making it impossible to close it again. "But it's BRITISH mate, you can't get better than that!"

Sometime after being "convinced" to pay twenty times as much for this monstrosity as for anything off the high street in dresden by NIgel's extremely large and persuasive older brother Fat Tony, you discover it only gives directions in Gumby and has t be programmed using Ecky-thump.

Curiousity gets the better of you and you open it up to find a small commercial GNSS receiver stuck to the inside with doublesided tape, butchered with a mountain of strange wiring coming out of it into some kind of vacuum tube based elecronics which doesn't appear to actually do anything except get hot.

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