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The GPS/GNSS newsletter by Navtech Seminars
& GPS Supply,
the GPS professional's resource since 1984. |
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Editor-in-Chief:
Carolyn P. McDonald (send news items to cmcdonald@navtechgps.com)
Technical
Editor: Keith D. McDonald (satconsult@aol.com)
Production
& Design:
F'Lynne Didenko (fdidenko@navtechgps.com)
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Included
in this Newsletter:
(click on hyperlinks below to jump to news items)
1)
Register now for Navtech's 2003 tutorials in Portland!
2)
Are you ready for Navtech's Open Mic Night Thursday, Sept.
11
in Portland???
3)
Make your ION GPS/GNSS 2003 hotel reservations
4)
NAVCEN (CGSIC meeting) agenda for Portland
5)
A word about certified WAAS aviation receivers
6)
Navtech GPS Supply has iQUE GPS/PDA's in stock - see
special
feature description
7)
Links to various aviation industry newsletters
8) Meetings calendar
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1)
Register now for Navtech's 2003 tutorials in Portland!
1)
Browse our 33 technical tutorials to be held September 8-9 in
Portland, Oregon prior to the ION GPS/GNSS 2003 Conference:
http://www.navtechgps.com/seminars/GPStutorials/iongps2003.asp
Three
OF OUR MORE SPECIALIZED TUTORIALS FOR PORTLAND don't yet have
enough attendees. PLEASE REGISTER IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO COME
TAKE OUR TUTORIALS IN PORTLAND!
Call Carolyn McDonald at (703) 256-8900 or (800) 628-0885 if you
are concerned about a course's viability, or need to know more
about its content (9 - 5:30 eastern time). Or email her at cmcdonald@navtechgps.com
for specific information.
Register
for tutorials on-line at: http://www.navtechgps.com/seminars/GPStutorials/tutreg.asp
PLEASE REGISTER EVEN IF YOU ARE A TENTATIVE, so we can predict
whether a course will be a "go" or not! We have
several half-day segments with low numbers, so please let us
know!
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2)
Are you ready for Navtech's Open Mic Night Thursday, Sept.
11
in Portland???
Navtech Seminars & GPS Supply
is producing its 2ND ANNUAL OPEN MIC
NIGHT,
with the support of our fine corporate sponsors:
Spirent
GPS
Networking Inc.
and
NavCom Technology Inc.
Come have some rock and roll fun!
Put away your laptop and grab a guitar and
blue jeans, or sing your favorite song with "The
Augmentations", the Open
Mic house band, and the "Pseudo Random Noise" back-up
singers. It's free - and you
can bring a guest.
Get tickets from Spirent, GPS
Networking, and NavCom or Navtech booths at the
ION GPS/GNSS conference in Portland.
Date: Thursday, Sept. 11,
2003
Time: 8:00 pm until whenever... (Note that 8:00 pm is the
correct time; not 7:00 pm as
stated in some places, but we will be setting up then.)
Place: The Fez Ballroom, 316 Southwest 11th Street and
West Burnside Street, across
from Powell's Books. Use the MAX Light Rail Stop at 10th and
Morrison.
If you get lost, call the Fez at (503) 221-7262.
Food: We will be providing
heavy appetizers until they are gone. It's not dinner,
but it's sure not just chips this year :o)
Beverages: Cash bar
Instruments: We are
providing drums, electric guitars and amps, mixer, a good
electronic piano with additional amplificaton, and mics for
singing.
Questions? Call Paul Witt
at (703) 256-8900
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3)
Make your ION GPS/GNSS 2003 hotel reservations
MAKE YOUR ION GPS/GNSS 2003 HOTEL
RESERVATIONS ASAP - only 3 weeks to go! Even
though the deadline has passed, rooms are still available at the
conference rate. It helps the ION
meet their hotel commitments if you stay at
an ION-listed hotel, and all hotels in the ION list are for your
use on tutorials nights as
well.
Make Your Hotel Reservations
Online at:
http://www.ion.org/meetings/gps2003hotel.html
- or -
Fax your reservation to 1-503-275-9782. Faxed reservations must
include your name, address,
preferred hotel, arrival and departure dates, credit card
issuer, card number and expiration date.
- or -
Email your reservation to housing@pova.com
. Include your name, address, preferred
hotel, arrival and departure dates, credit card issuer, card
number and expiration date.
Register for the ION GPS/GNSS
conference separately at:
http://www.ion.org/registration/
Please note that Navtech and the ION are different
organizations.
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4)
NAVCEN (CGSIC meeting) agenda for Portland
This note just in from Becky
Casswell, NAVCEN:
"The CGSIC 42nd meeting
will be held on 8-9 September at the Lloyd's Center DoubleTree
Hotel in Portland, Oregon near the Convention Center.
The agenda for the CGSIC meeting
is posted on the website at:
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/cgsic/meetings/42ndMeetingAgenda0807.htm
Registration and additional
information is available at:
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/cgsic/meetings/42ndMeeting.htm
See you in Portland!
Rebecca Casswell
Chief, GPS Branch
+1 703 313 5930"
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5)
A word about certified WAAS aviation receivers
One of our alert Australian
readers suggests that we mention
that at this time, there are not yet any receivers certified to
receive the WAAS signals for
aviation use. We understand that the first certification
is due in August 2003 with commercial availability some time
after that.
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6)
Navtech GPS Supply has iQUE GPS/PDA's in stock - see
special
feature description
Our Navtech GPS Supply now has
caught up with back orders and has the excellent
Garmin iQue's IN STOCK! This PDA is powerful and multitalented.
FEATURE: If you download your
Microsoft Outlook onto the IQue, you can click
on an address entry and with only a few keystrokes you will
bring up a map to that
location. The iQue knows where you are and easily tells you how
to get there with voice commands
and/or color map! If you have fiddled with older
car nav systems, you know how tedious data entry is. No more!
The iQue is a PDA, an address
database, and a talking GPS navigation system. The
automotive kit will be out soon and we have them on order.
Call us at (703) 256-8900, or in
the US and Canada at (800) NAV-0885. Or look
us up at http://www.navtechgps.com/supply/ique.asp
for complete descriptions.
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7)
Links to various aviation industry newsletters
For the authoritative Galileo
newsletter, go to: www.genesis-office.org.
(Latest issue is #25)
For the Locus Inc. newsletter on
timing and Loran positioning, go to:
http://www.locusinc.com/loran_newsletter.html
(new issue came out August 11)
For the electronic on-line
magazine for GPS professional users published by Matteo
Luccio, go to www.gpsuser.com
Premiere issue came out July, 2003. This is expected to be
bimonthly.)
For the newsletter published by
Professional Surveyor Magazine, Marc Cheeves,
Publisher, go to http://www.profsurv.com/newsArc.htm
(new issue came out Aug. 14)
Continuously updated newsletter
by the US Coast Guard's Navigation Center "NAVCEN"
is at http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/
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8)
Meetings calendar
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ION GPS/GNSS 2003
September 9-12, 2003 (Preceded by Navtech's tutorials Sept. 8
& 9)
Oregon Convention Center
Portland, Oregon
www.ion.org
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IAIN (International Association
of Institutes of Navigation) 11th World Congress
October 21-24, 2003, Berlin, Germany
Theme: "Smart Navigation - Systems and Services"
www.dgon.de
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LONDON MIL NAV CONFERENCE OCTOBER
29-30
Military Navigation Conference
29th & 30th October 2003
The Hatton, London, UK
SMi Conferences
Tel: +44 207 827 6180
CORRECTION: Please use www.smi-online.co.uk/navigation7.asp
instead of the email address
that was submitted to us earlier.
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ILA-32 (International Loran
Association)
November 3-7, 2003
Boulder, Colorado
www.loran.org
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PTTI 2003 December 1-4
Hilton Resort on Mission Bay
San Diego, CA
Contact Sheila Faulkner at: bopenyan@aol.com
PTTI 2004 will be in Washington
DC
PTTI 2005 will be combined with
the IEEE Frequency Control Symposium, meeting in August in
Vancouver, British Columbia
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Navtech Seminars presents courses
in New Orleans Dec. 15-19, 2003
See: http://www.navtechgps.com/seminars/sem2003schedule.asp#0305NewOrleans
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