RE: GPS devices: (was: re: [consume] Mapping Signal Strength)

Cool ;)

I'm relying on you guys to work out how I'm gonna use this thing!

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: alex-9Ca/[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Steve - Vacuum Networks
> Sent: 19 October 2002 12:08 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [consumebristol] GPS devices: (was: re: [consume] 
> Mapping Signal Strength)
> 
> 
> Andy Laurence wrote:
> > 
> > Now that the GPS units a few of us ordered are winging their way 
> > here...
> 
> and have landed. Me n Doug were googling about tonight for 
> specs on these, and the best we've come up with for 
> implementation/testing is at:
> 
http://www.dip.ee.uct.ac.za/~ahenric/oncorhtm.html

which is about some geezer's uni project to use one to build a GPS
device. The devices themselves are Motorola Encore GPS recievers - and
seem to run okay off 4.5 volts. (Initial tests will get response echo
back off the console, but not any GPS data, which is odd. More tweaking
needed on that)

Steve.

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