Can someone please give me some pointers (my first time with a GPS module).
A little hand-holding, pls. I bought three of these Rockwell D200 GPS receivers. (It's little GPS PWB with an antenna connector and pins for connecting to the RS232- PC) All three 'appear' to work the same way (no apparent capture of satellites). Here's what I have: 1. VisualGPS installed and running. 2. A small USB-RS232 card installed and appears to be operational. 3. Small GPS active antenna plugged in. 4. VisualGPS monitor just repeatedly displays: $GPGGA,,,,,,0,00,,,,,,,*66 5. I think I understand this to be NMEA code to mean no satellites have been acquired. 6. The Rockwell D200 draws ~180ma (5V) with no antenna and ~190ma with the small active antenna plugged in. What am I doing wrong? Other than maybe cheap china gps' and antenna??? But it is what I could afford and thought it would be cheap to learn on. Thanks for your help. -Don _______________________________________________ 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.
