Important News on the WAAS satellites

We just learned last week that one of our two WAAS satellites is going to be turned off in a couple of weeks. The problem is that the people on the ground who control the satellite have lost the ability to keep the satellite in it's precise orbit path. Once it strays too far out of its orbit path, it will just be shut down.

Hawaii and western Alaska are the states that will suffer the most from the lost WAAS satellite, because the remaining healthy WAAS satellite is the one further east.

Luckily, we still have one WAAS satellite available to us in the continental US. It is high above the horizon and will continue to provide excellent service to anyone using an SXBlue GPS unit or other GPS that utilizes WAAS.

Jon Aschenbach
Resource Supply, LLC