"Morris Odell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mike,
> The Lassen IQ is a little PCB mounted 12 channel receiver about > half the size of a matchbox, which is intended for OEM > applications. It's not easy to open to see what's inside. It uses > tiny surface mount connectors to get signals in and out but > there's no access to the oscillator if you want to use an external > osc. It doesn't have a built in antenna so the performance depends > on the external antenna connected to it. It seems to handle > constellation changes quite well as far as I can see. The > application info says it can be used for navigation as well as > timekeeping. Thanks - that is good info. > It has 2 serial ports as well as a 1 pps output. One serial port > is used to control and read it using Trimble's TSIP binary > protocol. > There is free DOS and Windows software available from Trimble to > do this. The other port can be configured to use TSIP, NMEA or > Trimble's own ASCII protocol called TAIP. Very very good info. Thanks. > I paid AU$70 about 2 years ago, which at the time was equivalent > to about US$60. You could probably do better these days. I bought > a bunch of old 6 channel VP Oncore receivers about a year ago on > ebay for AU12 each. They are ideal for timing aplications and > clocks. I couldn't seem to find any VP, so I got two UP+. Are they usable? > HTH, > Morris Thanks for your help. Best Regards, Mike Monett _______________________________________________ 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.
