On 12/17/14, 5:20 AM, Dan Kemppainen wrote:
Not sure if this is quite the right platform, but for someone wanting to
experiment it may be worth a look...
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/swiftnav/piksi-the-rtk-gps-receiver
http://www.swiftnav.com/piksi.html
from that page:
3-bit, 16.368 MS/s L1 front-end supports
$500
It uses the MAX2769, which has a tuning range of 1550-1610.
--
We get good results at JPL with direct conversion receivers (versus the
MAX 2769 is basically a single conversion superhet).. a chain of
amplifiers and BPFs followed by a one bit quantizer like an ECL D
flipflop clocked by the reference clock chosen to put the aliases at
convenient places in band.
I suspect, though, that the "wide open" LNA in the typical JPL receiver
is susceptible to interference. Most "survey quality" receivers (except
from Javad, which are "LightSquared Ready"<grin>) have pretty bad
interference rejection: they want the least stuff that might introduce a
phase shift in the signal path: It's all basic time-nuts stuff.. you
get that precise position by knowing what the carrier phase is to a
fraction of a gnat's eyelash.
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