[geeks] Cheap USB GPS units

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Wed Nov 24 08:19:32 CST 2010


On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:33:28AM -0700, Dan Duncan wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:
> > $15 shipped.  Includes the SiRFStar III-chipset GPS unit, which speaks
> > standard NMEA, etc, and as far as I can tell uses a PL2303 interface and
> > shows up as a standard serial port.
> You can be a Stratum 1 NTP server.

That's the intended use of one of them.  I ordered two.

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
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