As I say a most useless website. Regards
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Dave Martindale <[email protected] > wrote: > I spent a bit of time poking around the SkyTraq web site on the weekend. I > couldn't find a datasheet for the chip on the LTE-Lite - perhaps it's so > new that SkyTraq has not put together the datasheet yet. > > Under "timing", they only list the Venus638LPx-T, which is a older (2011 > copyright on the datasheet) 65-channel receiver. The LTE-Lite > documentation mentions 65 channels somewhere too, suggesting that the > LTE-Lite started out using this chip. Under navigation receivers, Skytraq > lists the newer (2013) Venus838FLPx with 167 channels. So I would assume > that the Venus838LPx-T-L used in the LTE-Lite is the same 167-channel > hardware with timing firmware, and that the LTE-Lite switched from the > 638LPx-T to the 838LPx-T-L sometime during development. > > - Dave > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 5:12 PM, S. Jackson via time-nuts < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Now that the cat is out of the bag - notice that on these boards we used > > the special -T timing version which is more than twice as expensive than > > the > > normal navigation version used by others.. I personally use the uBlox > > software because the Skytrack software had a habit of crashing itself and > > my > > computer from time to time.. > > > > > > In a message dated 11/25/2014 14:02:41 Pacific Standard Time, > > [email protected] writes: > > > > Here is a link to a company that at least shares details of the SkyTraq > > venus 8 chip on the LTE-Lite. The actual skytraq sites is pretty > useless. > > > > > > > https://www.tindie.com/products/smokingresistor/venus838flpx-gps-breakout-bo > > ard/ > > > > There is a program that will read the nema codes and such also. > > Have used it and its not better or worse then ublox. A bit of humor it > > only > > ever shows Asia for the ground track. > > > > The venus 8 seems to have a lot of capability. Not sure how to get to > it, > > but the fact is for the LTE Lite its not needed. It has a single job to > > perform. > > It would be curious to obtain the board tindie sells because it supports > > all of the satellites. But have to say thats a project for another day > > wayyyy down the list. > > But at least you can have some further technical details for the > system. > > Regards > > Paul > > WB8TSL > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
