[extropy-chat] Worldwide SOS system

[Alejandro Dubrovsky]

On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 16:21 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:53:18PM +1000, Alejandro Dubrovsky wrote:
> 
> > or a standard TCP socket connection with simple one line commands thrown
> > over it and 5 euros per month.
> 
> Not over GRPS, not in Germany. The 40 EUR/month are for
> 1 Hz update with a compressed protocol. Not just throwing
> a few binary NMEA sentences around, it's a bit more clever
> (differential position encoding).
> 
Different uses I suppose. Can't see what you would need updates every
second for though.  (thanks for mentioning NMEA, made me google, didn't
even know it was a standard)