On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Kiwi Geoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Kuethe wrote: > > In Sunnyvale, my ublox antaris4t is tracking and using for solutions > > it right now (2008-02-26T22:29:19.0Z). My GPS18/LVC doesn't admit that > > there could be a PRN32 > > I have been monitoring my little fleet of GPS18/LVC's since early this > morning Chris - when I was the first to receive PRN32 with a Motorola > GT+ (by forcing an almanac gather). > > I just checked the almanac on the Garmin 18 and it still says: > > $GPALM,32,32,32,,,,,,,,,,,,*7A ( still null fields for PRN32 ) > > So it has not updated the almanac yet. > > It's housekeeping may only download an almanac once a day, so that is > why some of us will have to wait a 24 hour period before we know > whether our GPS can count all the way up to 32
And with that, my GPS18 seems to have just found the ability to tell its head apart from its rear end with the aid of a 1:1 scale map. Not tracking yet, but at least it shows PRN32 in the right part of the sky. wrt receivers that only check almanacs daily: "grumble..." CK -- GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too? _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
