December 11, 2020 OFFICIAL RULES – US NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.  MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER TO ENTER.  VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. 1. ELIGIBILITY:  The Sweepstakes is open only to individuals who are legal residents of the 50 United States (excluding Puerto Rico residents), the District of Columbia, or Canada (excluding Quebec), and are 18 years of age or older at the time of entry.  Employees and their […]

Image: KENGKAT/iStock/Getty Images Plus/Getty Images The new TW5382 smart GNSS antenna by Tallymatics Inc.is designed for high-accuracy 5G timing. Tallymatics focuses on GNSS timing antennas; it is a division of the Calian Group of Companies, along with Tallysman Inc.. The TW5382 is a multi-band, multi-constellation 5G smart GNSS antenna/receiver that provides 5 ns (1-sigma, clear sky view) timing accuracy. It consists of two components: a Tallysman GNSS Accutenna technology antenna and a professional-grade GNSS timing […]

December 11, 2020 Blind Paralympian, engineer and competitive rower Patricia Walsh never ceases to amaze. We caught up with this woman of adventure to find out what’s new in her life as an athlete and professional living in London. Garmin: It was almost a year ago when you were a guest on our Life on the Outside podcast. A lot has changed since then, but just briefly, what’s new in the life of Patricia Walsh? […]

Originally posted in the Android Developers Blog, the following is reprinted with permission from authors Frank van Diggelen, principal engineer, and Jennifer Wang, product manager, Google. At Android, we want to make it as easy as possible for developers to create the most helpful apps for their users. That’s why we aim to provide the best location experience with our APIs like the Fused Location Provider API (FLP). However, we’ve heard from many of you […]

December 10, 2020 Nearly everyone wants to improve their fitness. Many wonder why their fitness isn’t improving as fast as they’d like. Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), or aerobic performance capacity, is measured in terms of VO2 max. Research shows that increasing your VO2 max offers many health and performance benefits. A growing number of Garmin smartwatches and fitness trackers can detect your VO2 max fitness level during runs and walks. Monitoring changes in your VO2 max helps […]

The Institute of Navigation (ION) is seeking abstracts for ION GNSS+ 2021: GNSS + Other Sensors in Today’s Marketplace, which is slated to take place Sept. 20-24 in St. Louis. A virtual option for the show also will be available. The conference will feature two tracks: commercial and policy, and research. The commercial and policy tracks include high performance and safety critical applications; status and future trends in GNSS; and mass market and commercial applications. […]

December 8, 2020 Our GTN™ Xi Series of navigators now feature even more advanced capabilities, including a Glide Range Ring that helps safety-minded pilots visualize the estimated area an aircraft could reach in the case engine power is lost1. Other new features include the ability to remotely control the radios of another GTN Xi when dual GTN Xi units are installed in an aircraft, quicker page navigation with the addition of customizable dual concentric knob […]

Map plot from live tests in London show the route of a vehicle driven through Canary Wharf. It shows the difference between the position provided by a standard smartphone GNSS chip (red line) and the same data run through Focal Point Positioning’s Supercorrelation software (blue line). (image: u-blox) U-blox has signed a deal with the award-winning UK-based technology company Focal Point Positioning to integrate technology that will improve the accuracy and reliability of GNSS devices.  […]

December 3, 2020 Walter “Rich” Richards does not consider himself a risk-taker. After 26 years in the Army and plenty of time fishing, hunting, hiking, snowmobiling and ATV riding in the Alaska backcountry, Rich has become adept at mitigating risk. The event that nearly took his life in September 2020, however, was not the result of risky decisions. It was the last day of a 3-day hunting trip. By that point, Rich and his hunting […]

Ligado application will bring harmful interference to critical technologies U.S. Representatives Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-PA), Collin Peterson (D-MN) and James Comer (R-KY) sent a letter Nov. 24 to House Leadership and the Appropriations Committee requesting language delaying implementation of the April 2020 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order granting Ligado’s application to deploy a terrestrial nationwide network to provide 5G services. In July, the Congressmen expressed serious concerns surrounding the FCC’s decision, questioning the reliability of […]