GPS INTERFERENCE WARNING IN CENTRAL TEXAS

Farmers, pilots and smartphone-users and anyone else who relies on GPS to get from here to there have been paying close attention to an alert from the US military base at Fort Hood in Texas. The announcement said that throughout February, the region that includes Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and even Oklahoma City could experience interference and disruptions. The final rounds of testing are to be held on February 13th and 14th from 3 to 5 a.m. local time and resuming nightly from February 15th through to the 22nd. The final testing period is February 23rd through to the 27th.