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<div><font color="blue">Dear IGS Colleagues: </font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font color="blue">Minor update to RINEX 2.11: </font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font size="3" color="blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;">The IGS/ RTCM-SC104 RINEX Working Group has made several minor corrections to the RINEX 2.11 documentation. The updated RINEX 2.11 document was released
on June 26, 2012 and all the changes are listed in the 0.7 revision section. See : <font color="black"> </font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><a href="http://igscb.jpl.nasa.gov/components/formats.html"><font color="blue"><u>http://igscb.jpl.nasa.gov/components/formats.html</u></font></a></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font size="3" color="blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;">RINEX 2.11 data files will continue to be accepted by the IGS for the foreseeable future. Going forward the RINEX 2.11 format will not be updated to support
new signals or constellations, only corrections and minor updates will be accepted. </span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font color="blue">RINEX 3.02 Draft and Final RINEX 3.02 Release planned </font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font size="3" color="blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;">One more RINEX 3.02 draft release is currently planned and it will be made available later this month (October, 2012). When it is posted on the IGS web
site another IGS mail will be sent and interested parties will have one month to comment on the draft. A final RINEX 3.02 release is planned before the end of 2012.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font size="3" color="blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Regards</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font size="3" color="blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Ken MacLeod, on behalf of the<font color="black"> </font>RINEX Working Group<font color="black"> </font></span></font></div>
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