[time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS card, Linux quirk

2012-02-04 Thread Hal Murray
I'm in the habit of using things like: cat /dev/ttyUSB0 when checking out GPS that I expect to send ASCII. When I tried that with my new toy, it went bonkers. In particular, the firmware LED went on, and the NMEA LED switched from blinking to solid on. The data included the stuff I

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS card, Linux quirk

2012-02-04 Thread Don Latham
The CP2102 is featured in Chinese ebay 4 buck usb-232 adapters. The chip suffers from serious bad-driveritis, and I've had to do 'net research to make it useful with various flavors of Windoze. Don Hal Murray I'm in the habit of using things like: cat /dev/ttyUSB0 when checking out GPS that

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-18 Thread Tom Van Baak
Thanks for all the info. I wasn't aware that leapsecond did any testing on the unit. Now I gotta play more with it. Rix Seacord K2AVP Right, I ordered one too when the thread started in November. I just updated the lab report page to include 1PPS risetime and TTL/RS232 NMEA latency/jitter

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-17 Thread cook michael
The SureElectronics unit is general within 10 feet with no observed off the wall excursions. With that in mind, I wonder how accurate is their 1pps output? Hi, There was some discussion on the MG1613S earlier. I ordered one off the bay and did a few test. I tried to post some pics of

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-17 Thread Kiwi Geoff
Rix Seacord wrote: The SureElectronics unit is general within 10 feet with no observed off the wall excursions. One possibility Rix, perhaps it may be like the Garmin 18x which has a very stable position with no sudden excursions ( with its Average Mode ON ). The 18x gives position in discrete

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-17 Thread paul swed
The DC468 simulator is not at all picky accept for the one time sentence. I think I looked at the same unit but was thinking about the jitter and accuracy of the 1 pps for a gps controlled oscillator. It was not really apparent, but I think it was not a good choice for that app. Regards Paul. On

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-17 Thread Tom Van Baak
Has anyone had any experience with the demo gps receiver being sold on Ebay by Sure Electronics. I have been running one, off and on, for about a month. The stability of its position plots is unbelievable compared to similar plots from Motorola Oncore, Garmin and Trimble Thunderbolt receivers.

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-17 Thread paul swed
This particular link does not seem to offer the gps board On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Scott Burris slbur...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/16/2011 9:49 PM, Rix Seacord wrote: Dick and Tom The gps is sold on ebay in several different versions. The don't have a web site under their name. The

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-17 Thread Scott Burris
http://www.sureelectronics.net/goods.php?id=99 Scott On 1/17/2011 8:27 AM, paul swed wrote: This particular link does not seem to offer the gps board On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Scott Burrisslbur...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/16/2011 9:49 PM, Rix Seacord wrote: Dick and Tom The gps is

[time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-16 Thread Rix Seacord
Has anyone had any experience with the demo gps receiver being sold on Ebay by Sure Electronics. I have been running one, off and on, for about a month. The stability of its position plots is unbelievable compared to similar plots from Motorola Oncore, Garmin and Trimble Thunderbolt receivers.

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-16 Thread Richard W. Solomon
Got a link ? A search on Sure Electronics comes up empty. 73, Dick, W1KSZ -Original Message- From: Rix Seacord eseac...@verizon.net Sent: Jan 16, 2011 3:35 PM To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS Has anyone had any experience with the demo gps receiver being

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-16 Thread Tom Clifton
I have purchased many items over the past few years from Sure and have never been dissapointed in that I receive.  They do seem to have multiple seller accounts, each with different items - sureelectonics sureelectronics1 sureelectronics2 etc. Any way, I did a serch by seller and found a

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-16 Thread jim s
I was looking at one of these units for the conversion project for the 468 clocks, sounds like these might be good units. I think I searched for gps and rs232 and hit them on the first page. JIm On 1/16/2011 5:07 PM, Tom Clifton wrote: I have purchased many items over the past few years from

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-16 Thread Rix Seacord
To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS Has anyone had any experience with the demo gps receiver being sold on Ebay by Sure Electronics. I have been running one, off and on, for about a month. The stability of its position plots is unbelievable compared to similar plots from

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Albertson
I found those too. But also found many Motorola units that had what I thought were better specs, and certainly better written user manuals. I guess you could run the suplied software and then snoop on the serial interface to figure out what commands the sure GPS accepts. Can it be put into

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-16 Thread Tom Van Baak
With that in mind, I wonder how accurate is their 1pps output? Pretty good for $40. About 60 ns peak-to-peak (22 ns stdev) about the mean. /tvb ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to