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by skzv 1377 days ago
Not just that. It's a higher frequency so the correlation peaks are more narrow and hence more easily distinguishable than L1 frequency
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That's not how it works at all. L5 at 1176 MHz has a different ionospheric delay than L1 at 1575 MHz. Since the timing data is identical, you can calculate and remove the ionospheric delay if you can receive both signals at once.

Correlation peak width is an SNR property (and to a lesser extent dependent on receiver LO phase noise), not something that really corresponds to the RF band in use. Whichever signal is stronger (taking antenna gain into account) is the one that will yield better-quality baseband data.

L5 has a 10 times higher modulation ("chipping") rate than L1/2 which does lead to a narrower correlation peak width. However, it doesn't solve the multipath problem near tall buildings.
L5 is useful in many ways, but L5 really does produce more narrow correlation peaks than L1 as well [0]

[0] https://insidegnss-com.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/0...

Yes, that's an SNR advantage due to processing gain. Works out to more or less 10 * log10(RF signal bandwidth / baseband data bandwidth) dB.

They could have done something similar at L1, but that ship has pretty much sailed.

I see, thanks for explaining