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    Quote Originally Posted by OakAshandThorn View Post
    What if you lose the signal from the satellite? Heck, what if the satellite goes blewie? People don't think these days, and yeah, it certainly is annoying.
    Or the Americans turn the Satellite "off"...
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    Quote Originally Posted by happybonzo View Post
    Or the Americans turn the Satellite "off"...
    Here we did not have GPS signals for a week resently as the army jammed the signals during a NATO excersise.

    Also, from my experience in certain contries where democracy is less developped, the first thing the governments stop, is public comms.
    It will happen in our contries to in times of unrest. Just watch south europe when the lid blows off that pressure cooker....
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    Yeah, or a solar storm could totally compromise it.
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    or you just remember its a navigational aid and not a replacement for navigational ability and map/compass
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sapper4083 View Post
    or you just remember its a navigational aid and not a replacement for navigational ability and map/compass

    Totally agree...... Maps and compasses were around long before satelites and GPS...

    In fact, I'd go as far as to say the stars were around before compasses...
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    Quote Originally Posted by SimonB View Post
    Totally agree...... Maps and compasses were around long before satelites and GPS...

    In fact, I'd go as far as to say the stars were around before compasses...
    Stars?
    What are stars?
    Are they related to that rumour that there is a shiny thing in the sky they call "the sun?"
    Hogwash if you ask me. I only beleive what I can see....
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    LOLOL... Well, It is difficult sometimes to see them with all the cloud cover we get here...
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    Quote Originally Posted by SimonB View Post
    Totally agree...... Maps and compasses were around long before satelites and GPS...
    especially with the accuracy of modern mapping
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bhunterbushcraft View Post
    New-age walkers are getting ridiculous!

    Now i say this but I am only 17. Most people nowadays use solely GPS as they are unable to use a map and compass. Recently I was up the Lomond Hills (Fife, Scotland) with friends camping and a German woman happened to stroll in. We were about half a click from any tracks so how on earth did she find us?

    She was lost. She was using GPS...on her phone..

    Now these are the time of people that phone emergency services to help them and it is ridiculous.
    Never trust phone GPS OR leave the house without a map!


    LOL, I actually had someone follow me half way up a munro. I stopped for a cuppa and him and his mrs walked up and asked "mate is this the west highland way"

    "eh....no pal...no it is not...."

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