Jim, You should be able to piggyback a second serial port in parallel with the one used by NTP (just the Rx line and ground) and use any NMEA decoder. It does not even have to be the same computer.
I have a quick NMEA decoder for Windows I wrote some time ago somewhere. Didier KO4BB Jim Lux <[email protected]> wrote: >I'm looking for an easy way to get current lat lon, when you've got a >GPS-18 hooked up for NTP. That is, the GPS receiver is there doing >it's >NTP thing, so presumably it knows where it is. > > >If NTP is decoding the GPRMC message, it has the lat/lon in it, so how >can I get that info out (in a command line utility, into a file, or >some >such) > >I don't need millisecond time accuracy.. For now the GPS is just to >make >sure that the time is "right". > > >The GPGGA sentence would also do. > >And, I only need the GPS position once within a 30 second interval >(it's >not moving, I just want to know where it is). > >It's not like ntpd or ntpq have some handy switch that says "display >current lat/lon" (which makes sense, because NTP is fundamentally time > >source agnostic). > >All of this with Windows 7. > >Jim >_______________________________________________ >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. -- Sent from my Motorola Droid Razr 4G LTE wireless tracker while I do other things. _______________________________________________ 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.
