Bob, If it was a glass of good bourbon, I'd take you up on that offer :-)
The Broadcom chipsets are touted as being specifically for phones. Whether we'll be able to buy stand alone modules, I don't know. The uBlox chipsets have in that past been widely available at rational prices. Hopefully the new "9" series will be, also. As for the ST Micro, I haven't a clue, but considering how their microcontrollers are so widely available from China, who knows what will happen. Joe Gray W5JG On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 9:37 PM, Bob kb8tq <kb...@n1k.org> wrote: > Hi > > I’d bet a warm glass of beer ( pick up only, no free delivery ) that you > will not see them in user level > modules ( = something you can fire up) at a rational price ( < $500) for > quite a while ( = years …). > The target market is integration in self driving / autonomous vehicles. If > you are GM or Toyota, > they will gladly support you. For the rest of us …. go to the back of the > line ….. That’s been the pattern > on this stuff like this for quite a while. > > Bob > > > On Apr 1, 2018, at 1:04 PM, Joseph Gray <jg...@zianet.com> wrote: > > > > 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 < > mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org > >> 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 -- time-nuts@febo.com > >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ > >> mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > >> and follow the instructions there. > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > _______________________________________________ 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.