Conclusions
The first two parts of the project, learning more about the autocorrelation process, and how in-band interference affects position accuracy, seemed to be helpful in preparing me for the experimental portion.
However, the experimental portion of the project was unsuccessful. For this part I ultimately ended up with more questions then answers. The choice of using the Garmin GPS III handheld receiver was probably not a good choice. The reason it was chosen was because of its simplicity that would make it more likely to lose lock under severe interference. However, because of its simplicity, I was unable to analyze any data to quantify how the interference affected the position accuracy. Since the whole experiment was designed around the receiver losing lock at a given distance from the transmitting antenna, when the receiver did not lose lock, no data was available to be analyzed.
As a follow up to this work two things could be changed. First is to use a receiver that could output position information in a Receiver Independent Exchange (RINEX) format so that the data can be analyzed after the experiment. Another change would be to use a more powerful antenna transmitting on channel 66. This would increase the range where a loss of lock would occur.