Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH 1/4] "We call GNSS GPS" patch train

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Sanjeev!

On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 23:00:41 +0800
Sanjeev Gupta <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Your 3 other patches look good.  As a nit, while refraction is
> > better than reflection, it's also (mainly?) about propagation speed
> > due to moisture in the troposphere and ionization.  So perhaps
> > better to just say "propagation times of the signals vary due to
> > changing properties of the troposphere and ionosphere"; the point
> > of differential is that these propagation time variances are
> > measured and adjusted out.
> >
> 
> Excellent, and thank you.  I was not aware of the effect of moisture,
> all the people I spoke too had diagrams which looked like refraction
> because of varying density (only).

Both mostly right, moisture affects density, and more.

RGDS
GARY
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