I just picked up a Star Box for $10. It has an Allstar DGPS board inside. I saw several mentions of similar boards in the archives and I have found some documentation on the net. Has anyone actually used one of these in a GPSDO? Does it work any better than the usual Motorola, Rockwell, or other available boards?
The other thought is, since this is a DGPS board, how difficult would it be to use it to obtain a more accurate position fix? Or do I need other GPS boards to correlate this one with? I'll admit that so far, I have only skimmed the documentation that I downloaded. If I need to RTFM for my answers, just tell me so. Some data on what I have: Star Box Part No. 100-600304-100 (DGPS Base Station option is checked) Inside the box is a carrier board that has a power supply and an RS-232 TX/RX chip. The GPS board that plugs onto the carrier has a label on the underside that says "VAR 100". This corresponds to the suffix of the part number on the box. The top side of the GPS board has the GPS receiver in a large metal box that is imbossed "ALLSTAR 12" and "CMC", which is the manufacturer (since then bought by Novatel?). Joe Gray W5JG _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.