Re: opensource_gps Digest, Vol 65, Issue 1

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<div style =3D "font-size:12px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000;"><DIV>Hel=
lo Siddharth,<BR><BR>To reduce the false alarms try increasing the Threshol=
d value, this increases the signal strength required for transitioning to t=
he various states.</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>Best regards,</DIV><DIV>&nbsp=
;</DIV><DIV>Cliff&nbsp;</DIV><DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 5px 0px; BORDER-TOP: #bc=
bcbc 1px solid"></DIV><SPAN>On 02/06/11, <SPAN>Siddharth Paliwal&lt;siddhar=
[email protected]&gt;</SPAN> wrote:</SPAN>Thanks for the reply, Doug and=
 Mark.<DIV>For my application I require a short length cable only (about 35=
 cm or so), and I wasn't able to find any resource to get only 2-3 pieces</=
DIV><DIV>manufactured so I got it modified by some person who had done it b=
efore a few times. I was suggested to use a Network Analyzer</DIV><DIV>to m=
easure the return loss and check for impedance discontinuities in the cable=
. I am seeing to it and will get back with results.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DI=
V>And about the gain values, isn't it possible to reduce False alarms by re=
ducing the Threshold value, for which the state transits</DIV><DIV>from Acq=
uire/Confirm to Pull-in ?</DIV><BR><DIV class=3Dgmail_quote>On Sun, Feb 6, =
2011 at 1:55 AM, Doug Baker <SPAN dir=3Dltr>&lt;<A href=3D"http://webmail.v=
erizon.com/webmail/%22http://mailto:[email protected]%22" target=3D_b=
lank _djrealurl=3D'"http://mailto:[email protected]"'>dbaker@gpscreat=
ions.com</A>&gt;</SPAN> wrote:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE style=3D"BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1p=
x solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=3Dgmail_quote>=
Hello Siddharth,<BR><BR>Most likely the shortened coax cable is causing the=
 front-end of the<BR>receiver to be overloaded with too much gain. &nbsp;Th=
e cable length that comes<BR>with that Trimble antenna is such that it prov=
ides enough attenuation to<BR>work properly with that receiver.<BR><BR>You =
may want to try adding some coax back to that antenna to introduce loss<BR>=
in order to get the correct amount of gain.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Doug Bak=
er<BR>GPS Creations, Inc.<BR>PO Box 381272<BR>Germantown, TN 38183-1272<BR>=
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1 12:35:05 +0530<BR>From: Siddharth Paliwal &lt;<A href=3D"http://webmail.v=
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n; charset=3D"iso-8859-1"<BR><BR>Hello,<BR><BR>I am running the GPL-GPS cod=
e on the GPS600 receiver that I purchased from<BR>GPS Creations. I had to m=
odify my Antenna(Trimble) cable length for some<BR>reasons, so I got the ca=
ble shortened and got another connector re-crimped<BR>to it. But this modif=
ied Antenna seems to have some problems. Now I am<BR>unable to get lock on =
satellites, but there seem to be a large no. of False<BR>Acquisitions, in t=
he sense that most of the channels (out of 12 available)<BR>now transition =
upto the Pull-in state and then fall back to Acquisition<BR>state. And the =
code seems to be running perfectly fine with an unmodified<BR>Trimble Anten=
na (tracking up to 6-7 satellites !!).<BR>Is there any way to check if ther=
e are any problems with my modified Antenna<BR>(probably Impedance matching=
 problems?) besides running it on the GPS<BR>receiver and checking If I'm a=
ble to lock satellites or not. And also what<BR>are the possible places at =
which I might have gone wrong?<BR>Any help would be highly appreciated.<BR>=
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