I just checked the location data from this picture.

He's one of the good guys.

Groom Lake?

 

Groom Lake?

It must be one of those Bermuda Triangle magnetic anomalies causing interdimensional realities.

 

It must be one of those Bermuda Triangle magnetic anomalies causing interdimensional realities.

You don't have to go to the Bermudas to experience those... just a bottle of schnapps should do it.

 

It might have been the Navy. They have jammed GPS in the past.

 

It might have been the Navy. They have jammed GPS in the past.

We didn't need no GPS. The DRA handled that just fine.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/navy/nrtc/14308_ch9.pdf

 

@nsaspook I never said the Navy NEEDED GPS. They have, on the west coast, disrupted (jammed) GPS for about four hours a number of years back this century. They recently cancelled a jamming test this year.

Introducing a bias into the GPS system certainly could position Loosewire from FL to Groom Lake.

You were probably active when it was called NAVSTAR GPS and it took 12 hours to get a fix.

 

@nsaspook I never said the Navy NEEDED GPS. They have, on the west coast, disrupted (jammed) GPS for about four hours a number of years back this century. They recently cancelled a jamming test this year.

Introducing a bias into the GPS system certainly could position Loosewire from FL to Groom Lake.

You were probably active when it was called NAVSTAR GPS and it took 12 hours to get a fix.

I think mainly the carriers had testing equipment for pre GPS and BLOCK 1 birds in the 79-82 time period. Some of the early ones also carried nuclear detonation detectors for the SALT treaties. We did have LORAN and sometime used the Russian systems for time and location when in the Indian Ocean. The Russian TASS agency ran a few military radio services and propaganda from Radio Kabul in the 80's. They had a really good in the clear news service on TTY we copied for general world news for the crew from the radio control room.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_News_Agency_TASS

 

I tracked the western USSR loran c chain one night for S&G on the third receiver. I did tell the officers it was for training purposes to see the mornings dinural effects. I really didn't want to mark the charts. I did notice the stability of their oscillator and it settle down after the US station resumed transmissions. This was in the late 70s.