GPS said 28% grade.

Steepest I've been on is a 15% down in south east Ohio along the Ohio river vw line. Oh 255 I believe was the road

 

The sattelites are in stable positions above the earth. If you are passing through a place where the signals are reflected or scattered by cliffs, the signal will likely be off every time you pass through. Weather can add some variance to weak or scrambled signal as well, adding some variance, so the off signal isn't exactly the same every time.

 

GPS satellites are not in a geosynchronous orbit.

 

That large string of numbers is enough to shoot on from essentially any military platform that has arms to do it.

Never you mind those million dollar homes, how do you think they got building materials up to build them?

My record is around 25% in vermont, Im still working on the reconstruction of that trip. There is a ethan allen furnature factory in the 90's hard by the border fence against a Customs and Crown post off a two laner at the bottom of that grade. It's really difficult to find it.

GPS is a constellation of satellites using time. Two or more gives you more accurate location on the planet. The constellation is maintained with regular replacement launches. We have one Constellation that was opened for civilian use by President Clinton to a more precise location in those days and the Russians had their own system of GPS.

I understand the smart phone on my table no longer really needs three or more satellites to find it's proper spot, it has begun to use wifi signals and celluar towers and so on, whatever it can hear in addition to the usual GPS.

My own router is wired only. But it does have a wireless function on it for home use which I have played with a few times. Discovered with the right software you can create a living map of what is inside my home with that thing, where the bodies of people are and so on almost. Along with everyone else's phones, laptops, devices other routers etc. Call me old fashioned but it's getting pretty amazing.

I have a compass sitting on the printer keeping an eye on the pole and that one has 3600 mils on it. Orienteering was my training in the scouts as a child and I led several near Camp David out of Greentop to a place called Hog Rock as a landmark a few times. We got pretty close with paper maps and that compass. My problem back then was I did not quite know what the magnetic devitation for that part of Maryland was, and learned later in ground school for air navigation how to compenstate.

But enough about my thoughts. I think we are entering a time where the poles may flip as they usually do now and then inside the planet, nothing to be afraid of. Just have to redo everything in modern life and we will really rely on that GPS more than ever during that time I believe.

It is very good to carry a GPS with you when you go into places. If you get into trouble just hand that string of numbers over to the search and rescue and that should be pretty close to where they will find you more or less.

 

1280 VT-253, Beecher Falls, VT 05902
The Canaan factory on the border. It is not on top of a mountain. It took 5 seconds on Google. Somebody else tell him because he blocks everybody, and I'm one of them.

 

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Off road is when the slope % go big. 17% is average. 30s% takes time to get use to. 40-50% is why you make the big bucks. But you never get conformable with.

 

Nice pictures.
X1's theory is similar to mine; give you all 110% of the info - so you can use the 30 % you need.
When you're older than dirt, and live where they have to pump light back in there, I'm there too.
Long winded, sure, and good for him - to be able to string a sentence together to intelligently communicate.
The rest is informational, historical, or hysterical. Your choice.
I block no-one.