[LEAPSECS] Reliability (was Re: it's WP7A week in Geneva)

[Richard B. Langley]

Quoting Magnus Danielson <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org>:


>If the receivers where using L2C they would be able to resolve this from the signal, as

it has a 8192 week >wrapping.

But not quite yet. No IIR-M satellite was transmitting the CNAV messages on L2C until
last week when, as a test, SVN49 started to transmit message type 0. It will be many
years before the full CNAV message is implemented on IIR-M and IIF satellites.

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