* Posts by fightingmonk

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LightSquared blasts GPS naysayers in FCC letter

fightingmonk
WTF?

Horrible Analogy

Your analogy is way off. This situation is more aptly described as follows:

A building houses a legally licensed lab containing highly sensitive audio gear that listens for cricket whispers (in the 20 kHz range) miles away. LightSquared buys the adjacent lot, knowing it is zoned as "super quiet use only", lobbies the town to change the zoning, and commences to operate an open-air rave 24x7. While the music doesn't contain 20 kHz frequencies, it so vastly overwhelms the lab's sensors that they can no longer hear crickets.

As Number6 said, there are not effective, inexpensive methods to filter out that level of noise. It's likely the mil community has methods, but the kit would cost way more than any consumers would spend.