Magnus, When I can buy one of these new, multi-frequency receivers, I'll remember to thank you :-) I wonder if any of the three will be available this year. The Broadcom chipset in phones will be nice, but I'd also like a standalone module from anyone. More fun stuff to play with.
Joe Gray W5JG On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 3:15 AM, Magnus Danielson <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi Joe, > > On 03/31/2018 01:16 PM, Joseph Gray wrote: > > I've been reading announcements by Broadcom, uBlox and ST Micro for new > > chipsets that will use L1, L2, L5 to provide significantly more precise > > positioning for every day applications like cell phone, autonomous > > vehicles, UAV, etc. Broadcom is claiming 30 cm, uBlox just says > "centimeter > > level". The next few years ought to be very interesting, as these > chipsets > > become available in consumer products. > > I have advocated for receivers able to handle multiple frequencies and > multiple GNSS for some time, sneaking it into documents, so there should > be some preparations for this now. > > The benefit is naturally redundancy, but also higher precision. > > Natural I would enjoy cheap multi-frequency receivers myself, but I > would never admit that this would be a reason for advocating it. ;-) > > Cheers, > Magnus > _______________________________________________ > 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.
