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

From: Steve - Vacuum Networks <[email protected]>
> 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)

Note that you should use a MAX232 to prevent you blowing the GPS according
to the nice chap who sold them to us.

Andy


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