Fun GPS status display

[LightningRob]

This may be known and I apologize, but I stumbled on this cool GPS status display screen within the setting area of the native ford navigation. It’s kinda neat to see the number of gps satellites the truck is using and the signal strength of each.

Oh and my screen is not that color, but my iPhone camera made it look discolored.

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[K6CCC]

That is cool for us geeks. I'll have to look at that...

 

[FloridaMan655321]

Dark mode is a must. What are you even doing?

 

[LightningRob]

Dark mode is a must. What are you even doing?

Oh man! Clearly I’m new here haha! I will fix that asap!

 

[TaxmanHog]

Wonder how many Lightnings or other Ford Nav systems are rolling down the roads of Russia?

 

[K6CCC]

Dark mode is a must.

In your opinion - not mine.

Wonder how many Lightnings or other Ford Nav systems are rolling down the roads of Russia?

Are you implying that it must be in Russia because it is seeing GLONASS satellites? Not the case. GLONASS like Galileo, GPS, and BeiDou is a global system. I just looked at my NTP server here in southern California, and it is receiving 9 GLONASS satellites (using 6), 10 GPS satellites (using 8), and 8 Galileo satellites (5).

 

[FloridaMan655321]

In your opinion - not mine.

Don’t let your opinion get in the way of facts

 

[TaxmanHog]

Are you implying that it must be in Russia because it is seeing GLONASS satellites? Not the case. GLONASS like Galileo, GPS, and BeiDou is a global system. I just looked at my NTP server here in southern California, and it is receiving 9 GLONASS satellites (using 6), 10 GPS satellites (using 8), and
8 Galileo satellites (5).

I guess Ai search I did was narrow minded, it told me the system was used in russia for land nav, but I can see that it's possibly used worldwide for sea & air nav as well, still don't trust them as far as I can throw them, [/soapbox]

 

[K6CCC]

it told me the system was used in russia for land nav

GLONASS is a Russian based equivalent of the US based GPS (originally called NavStar). Just as Galileo is a European based system and BeiDou is a Chinese based system. All four of them work on a fairly similar operational concept. GPS is the oldest system of the four (updated several times since it was introduced in the 80s), and BeiDou is the most recent. Most GPS receivers these days will use some combination of the systems (GPS and Galileo being the most common).

You are likely partially correct that very few people other than Russians are only using the GLONASS system.

 

[chl]

So many satellites now:

https://satellitetracker3d.com/

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

The location determination satellites don’t receive transmissions from your GPS device. Your GPS device receives transmissions from them, but it’s not a two-way communication. Using signals from a GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou, GPS, etc. doesn’t do anything to give away your location to the operators of those networks.

Using the cell phone transceiver in your truck does allow your location to be determined by the cell network operator and Ford, but only if your transceiver sends signals to the cell towers, which they do.

 

[bc1]

Technically the more satellites your receiver can access, the higher the accuracy for a location. Minimum was 2 or 3 years back but the better receivers are made to connect to more to get a more precise location. Garmin and others use the Glonass along with the american ones for more precision. Glonass runs off of a different frequency so the receiver has to have receive more than one frequency. The US has older satellites that have been phased out and I think they changed frequencies. Glonass (Russian), Galileo (European Union), and BeiDou (China) would all run on different frequencies. Quality of receiver, quality of antenna, quality of internal clock, and what systems they access all go into the internal computer processing location and then elevation is hardest to pinpoint.

GPS is based upon a radio frequency sent from the satellite to the receiver and the internal clock figures your distance from it. Using multiple satellites, at least 3, it then triangulates your position on the ground. The more satellites you receive, the more triangulations you get to better pinpoint your location. Weather and atmospheric conditions can affect the radio waves and signal and thus reading the time and distance. Also the quality of the electronics and atomic clocks in the satellites make a difference. Early US satellites weren't that good and I'd bet the Russian electronics may be a little/very flaky but the computers in the gps receivers can allow for that. Chris or someone can correct me here or provide a better explanation.

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