Hi All Ive just received my GPS receiver - ( free!) - and for those interested it is an 8 channel unit MOTOROLA ONCORE UT unit. Ive just spent the last two hours scouring the internet for the software for it and eventually located dos and windows versions so hopefully will have the unit running soon. I also received a GPS active antenna with it so now have to mate the two units, build a +5 volt power supply , hook up some cables to a pc and I think I have to build an RS-232 interface and maybe one or two other items. I have not yet decided exactly how I am going to tie it into my tracking system - I guess I could replace the 1pps from my quartz crystal oscillator divider chain with the GPS units 1pps, or apply the 1pps to my video time stamper unit- either will mean that I no longer need WWV and my timing should be locked at all times to GPS. Of more interest to readers could be a site I came across in my surfing. This offers the freeware DOS program KIWI that uses a PC and a GPS receiver ( with 1 pulse/second output) to timestamp an event to millisecond accuracy to UTC. It does require the user to make up some simple electronic circuitry. If interested visit the site at http://www.geocities.com/kiwi_36_nz/kiwi/kiwi.htm Cheers Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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