[Az-Geocaching] Going caching near Ft. Huachuca?

Jim Scotti listserv@azgeocaching.com
Fri, 4 Oct 2002 17:20:44 -0700 (MST)


Scott,
   It sounds to me that the affects may be limited or even non-existant below
about 4,000 AGL, so those of us who are ground-huggers may not have to worry.  
Looks like the affected area might include Tucson if you are high altitude.  
If my Trooper is flying high enough to throw my GPS off due to these tests,
I've probably got a lot more to worry about than simple navigation.....  :-)  
Thanks for the heads up though!  It might be fun to head out that way and
hunt for some of the caches in that area, just to see if there are affects.

Jim.

On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Scott Nicol wrote:

> I thought some might find this interesting. For those that are going to be 
> caching in these areas... it might be of interest! For others, just an 
> interesting post. I pulled this off the AOPA web site (Aircraft Owners and 
> Pilots Association). I never really knew this, but they are going to be 
> conducting GPS interference tests during the posted dates and times.
> 
> http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/gpstesting.html
> 
> Fort Huachuca, Arizona is one of the effected areas. At the lowest 
> altitude... the area in which your GPS could be effected is about 95nm from 
> the test site. I would guess there are probably many caches within 95nm of 
> Ft. Huachuca. I have not looked at the cache map down there lately, but it 
> seems like I remember seeing a bunch of caches down south of that area.
> 
> The test states that IFR flights utilizing GPS navigation should not be made 
> in these effected areas during the posted dates and times due to GPS 
> inacuracy. So, I would guess if you were seeking some of the caches south of 
> Ft. Huachuca down there during the posted times.. your GPS might really play 
> games with you!!! :)
> 
> Just an interesting tidbit. Yall can read the web site more if interested.
> 
> Scott
> Team Ropingthewind
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Jim Scotti                              
Lunar & Planetary Laboratory         jscotti@pirl.lpl.arizona.edu 
University of Arizona                
Tucson, AZ 85721 USA                 http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/