Mike,
Do you mind if I forward your email to my local dorkbot group to see if anyone
is interested in your Hammond boxes?
Sent from my Banana jr (tm) Mobile Device
On Dec 31, 2010, at 7:49 PM, "Mike Feher" wrote:
> Sorry for the on-line post. I thought it was sent to me direct. Best of
> time
Well Richard. maybe we should all go back to the horse and buggy days.
The horse even found its way bak when the driver had a skin full and
was not to sure where he lived.
Regards, Horst (e)
On 1/01/2011 16:08, Richard W. Solomon wrote:
I add just one more comment ...
Most of the destinati
HNY,
I disagree. The reason a high performance GPS costs 100K or more is that
the engineering cost is ammortized over a few hundred units.
Say the thing cost $10M to develop and you make 1000, that's $10,000 NRE
per unit.
However, if you have a successful commercial unit and sell 1,000,000 the
N
I add just one more comment ...
Most of the destinations I program in, by address, work well.
Most of the time, I get led right to the door. So why can't
it figure out where I live ??
Just sloppy work, pure and simple.
73, Dick, W1KSZ
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>From: Horst Schmidt
>Sent: De
Hi,
first, a happy and hopefully healthy New Year to all of you.
I think, some of you are going slightly overboard, in what you expect a
$150 Dollar car navigator should do,
I also don't believe some of you you realise what exactly it was
designed to do.
It is not a device to accurately
Sorry for the on-line post. I thought it was sent to me direct. Best of
time-nut happiness in 2011 - Mike
Mike B. Feher, EOZ Inc.
89 Arnold Blvd.
Howell, NJ, 07731
732-886-5960 office
908-902-3831 cell
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Stan -
Too many, HI. You would do better getting 3 as the shipping would be the
same. I can let you have 3 for $22 plus the $10.70 shipping. You decide. 73
- Mike
Mike B. Feher, N4FS
89 Arnold Blvd.
Howell, NJ, 07731
732-886-5960 office
908-902-3831 cell
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From: time-nu
Hello Mike,
Any boxes left ?
I am looking for 2 each sent by mail to zip 02644.
Thanks Stan, W1LE
On 12/21/2010 1:51 PM, Mike Feher wrote:
I have a quantity of NOS Hammond boxes available. These are model number
1598HBK. Mouser is the cheapest source for these that I found on a quick
searc
Since we're already having an OT flamefest about garmin, I'd like to point
out openstreetmap (OSM):
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=36.38671875&lon=-93.251953125&zoom=4
which is a world-wide wiki-style editable map. In some places, it's
more accurate than navteq and teleatlas, but it is gen
When a product is sold giving the distinct impression that it is to be
used to navigate to street addresses, then it should be accurate for
the use it is sold for. If the street addresses aren't going to be
accurate, they should just leave them off. Tonight, I tried to use my
Nuvi and it didn't eve
gonzo-
"A GPS is a precision device.
A Navigator is a consumer device.
To confuse the two is to fail to understand either."
A navigator IS a GPS. Surveying GPSs may use carrier phase tracking or
whatever to get about 2mm accuracy. Just because it is optimized for navigation
instead
of locati
A GPS is a precision device.
A Navigator is a consumer device.
To confuse the two is to fail to understand either.
ian
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Here in Florida, I would recommend ANY external antenna or other roof
mounted device be bonded to the building ground system conductor. See
NEC and check Polyphazer's website for guidance. Polyphazer makes
devices to protect GPS equipment as does Huber and Suhner. Be sure the
device is rated to
Not only MS. Any product whose cost ofd production is trivial compared to
selling price.
Look at Coke... it's 99+% water. In some places it sells for $2/pint.
-John
==
>
> Hmmm, sounds like the Microsoft model.
>
> What did you expect for $100?
>
>
> On 12/31/2010 12:49 PM, J. For
Hmmm, sounds like the Microsoft model.
What did you expect for $100?
On 12/31/2010 12:49 PM, J. Forster wrote:
Well, I won't rant back at you, Dick, but your expectations are way off
base. GPS cartographers have to designate billions (yes, billions) of
addresses and the fact that they miss a
I have also observed the low sensitivity of the T-Bolt here. The older one (red
box with built-in DC/DC converters) barely worked with the Trimble Bullet
antenna I got with it, but works fine with an HP 58532A and also with a small
mag-mount Trimble model.
The two newer T-Bolts (group buy) appea
Let's look at it from another point of view:
as it is, the map data store about very few points for each road (less than
10 in most cases anyway).
To have correct coordinates for each number on each road (I suppose here
that these data exist somewhere...) would multiply that by a factor between
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:18 AM, William H. Fite wrote:
> Maybe we should cut these cartographers a little slack. When you consider
> that Garmin will sell you a map update of the entire northern hemisphere for
> eighty bucks, we perhaps shouldn't get too wadded up if they miss the exact
> locat
My 0.02
These SAME maps are being used in E911 and other GIS systems so the poor
workmanship which is so obvious here has the potential to put lives in danger.
Most of the emergency response trucks up here have GPS systems with these maps
onboard - not a problem for locals but if we needed outs
> Well, I won't rant back at you, Dick, but your expectations are way off
> base. GPS cartographers have to designate billions (yes, billions) of
> addresses and the fact that they miss a few scarcely justifies a backhand
> brushoff as "shoddy work."
Look at it another way:
They are producing o
Alas, Garmin cannot run itself with a particular focus on your neighborhood
or mine, something that New Yorkers have been learning about their city
government this past week.
Of course it is annoying when an address is off. But, in the first place,
the error may have occurred long before the data
Well, I won't rant back at you, Dick, but your expectations are way off
base. GPS cartographers have to designate billions (yes, billions) of
addresses and the fact that they miss a few scarcely justifies a backhand
brushoff as "shoddy work."
Can you have a product of this size and complexity tha
Quote:"
Maybe we should cut these cartographers a little slack. When you consider
that Garmin will sell you a map update of the entire northern hemisphere for
eighty bucks, we perhaps shouldn't get too wadded up if they miss the exact
location of my little bungalow by a couple of hundred feet. Af
I could not disagree with you more ... it is this acceptance
of shoddy work and product that is leading us down the road
to ruin.
My Garmin tells me to take a right to get to my house when in
fact I should go left. How simple is it to tell right from left.
For the price they charge, I can almos
My concern is a major industrril building complex and all the visitors
that get missdirected to the wrong end of a long road every day.
-John
===
> Maybe we should cut these cartographers a little slack. When you consider
> that Garmin will sell you a map update of the entire north
Chris said:
3) Do people really run coax straight from a GPS antenna into their
> house with no protection from lightening? Maybe a GPS antenna is a
> small target compared to a 100 foot wire antenna in Florida
>
Chris, I'm in Orlando, the lightning capitol of the entire world. Here, *
nothing
Maybe we should cut these cartographers a little slack. When you consider
that Garmin will sell you a map update of the entire northern hemisphere for
eighty bucks, we perhaps shouldn't get too wadded up if they miss the exact
location of my little bungalow by a couple of hundred feet. After all,
Definately nice ways to go. However if this is a hobby then TV RF splitters
and satellite LNB IF line amps (LNBs IFs are .9-1.5 Ghz) also work very
well. I picked up the line drivers for $2 at a typical old stock store and
splitters to 2 Ghz for $1. Measured them and they are pretty good. But the
r
swingbyte wrote:
First New Year at home ( 20 week old baby ) fortunately the neighbours
have let off a few fireworks.
Happy New Decade, mate! (and thanks for that quirk in Strine, too!) In
America, we don't "let off" fireworks, but instead "set" them off or
light them off. (possibly Chicago-s
Burt I. Weiner-
"Recently I've had need to operate with two GPS navigation systems in
the same car at the same time and I've had to shield the antennas from
each other, or at lease get them as far apart as practical on a car otherwise
they both seem to interfere with each other and I can lose GP
On 01/01/11 00:16, swingbyte wrote:
> First New Year at home ( 20 week old baby ) fortunately the neighbours
> have let off a few fireworks.
Melbourne is, of course UTC+11 at the moment being AEDT not AEST for the
summer.
We had idiots with fireworks here too, as apparently did much of Melbourne.
First New Year at home ( 20 week old baby ) fortunately the neighbours
have let off a few fireworks.
Tim
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On 12/31/2010 10:20 AM, Joseph Gray wrote:
If I am using the NMEA data (as in the Garmin is the only time
source), what firmware is recommended by all those using a GPS18x-LVC?
Here are measurements on the bad versions:
http://n1.taur.dk/permanent/gps18x-330-pps.jpg
http://n1.taur.dk/permanent/
If I am using the NMEA data (as in the Garmin is the only time
source), what firmware is recommended by all those using a GPS18x-LVC?
Joe Gray
W5JG
Kiwi Geoff recommended:
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http://www.gawisp.com/perry/oem_sensor/
From there I downloaded: GPS18x
If I am using the NMEA data (as in the Garmin is the only time
source), what firmware is recommended by all those using a GPS18x-LVC?
Joe Gray
W5JG
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:52 AM, David J Taylor
wrote:
>> So, what is the final consensus as to which is the best firmware
>> version to use for NTP
So, what is the final consensus as to which is the best firmware
version to use for NTP purposes?
Joe Gray
W5JG
Any, providing you don't use the NMEA data to get the nearest second, but
use a secondary reference source. Bit of a problem for a stand-alone
system, though.
I certainly would /
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