Any idea how accurate it was at the time? Its been several years since i did anything with gps so im pretty rusty, appreciate the clarifications

Youre right, but i already felt i was too in the weeds for a reddit comment lol

Point is, until SA was turned off even with DC high precision wasnt possible (to my knowledge, at least - i know my gps professor had spent some time trying to find workarounds to SA but didnt get much success before it became moot)

Selective Availability was the intentional degradation of the civilian C/A code. This was turned off in 2000 by executive order - civilian receivers have been capable of sub-meter precision since

There is a second encrypted "p code" reserved for the military on a different frequency - this allows for even greater precision (not sure how much greater) because you can use the two signals at different frequencies to "cancel out" ionospheric errors. But there are other ways to handle ionospheric errors, depending on the application

Truly bizarre in that case, this is a long shot from rational behavior

If a safe or precious metals really cant get through to him, best of luck i certainly dont have any other ideas. Some people just really want to shoot themselves in the foot i guess

Assuming hes of sound mind, the only explanation i can think of for being that opposed to banks or investments is that the cash was obtained illegally

Well, jerund has what they need. Everyone else can go fuck themselves. This is america, after all