[geeks] GPS antenna connector question

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Tue Jul 12 14:57:40 CDT 2005


On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 02:54:02PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> Get something that speaks NMEA, then:
> somewhere on here:
> http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/refclock.html
> You can setup ntpd to take a time source from an attached GPS.
> I'm actually going to do this at home once my SV6-CM3 sits in the window
> long enough to re-acquire almanac data (may take 2-3 days).

Specifically:

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/drivers/driver20.html

You don't have to spend $100 on a GPS; I got my WAAS-enabled one from
here:

http://www.deluoelectronics.com/customer/product.php?productid=58&cat=1&page=1

but this one would work just as well:

http://www.deluoelectronics.com/customer/product.php?productid=57&cat=1&page=1

GPS Manager (windows) is cool software for monitoring an incoming GPS
signal/NMEA data stream:

http://www.american-outland.com/index.asp?level=2.9&lang=EN

Bill

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bill bradford
houston, texas



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