[psas-avionics] GPS

2015-06-09 Thread dpl
I was reviewing my old GPS Jamming slides and it terns out jamming can accrue with a received jammer signal strength of -90dB. it is possible the 1575.02MHz signal is still to strong and we are self jamming. is there a way we can change the 25MHz clock to 12.5MHz to test this possibility? I als

[psas-avionics] jGPS NOW COLLECTS RAW GPS DATA!!!11!!

2015-06-09 Thread Andrew Greenberg
w00t!!! After struggling mightily for a long time, we finally figured out all the correct settings for the MAX2769 GPS receiver IC and now we are getting actual raw GPS IQ data!! We're now mounting the v3 board onto the rocket! Andrew -- --- A

[psas-avionics] When making a SDR GPS receiver with two inputs...

2015-06-09 Thread Andrew Greenberg
... make sure you use the *correct* input. Yes: the root cause of not being able to be locked on real GPS satellites is that we were feeding the *wrong* LNA on the MAX2769 into the MAX's ADC. The wrong LNA went to an used pin on the MAX2769, so of course we weren't even getting the RF from the sat