>Why bother? Tell us why they should bother doing that? It is one thing >for you to bring a GPS unit to the device and quite another to ask the >vendor to incorporate the GPS device on his board so please *justify* >your comments.
Why bother? I have no idea. Doug just told us that GPS synch was high on their list, but that GPS with timing was too expensive. And I was replying to his comment. I have been involved with developing AVL systems that use embedded engines for over 10 years. The engines are now about 12 bucks. They have PPS signals. That should not be a show stopper especially if GPS is high on the list as you say. Heck- Motorola has a cheap Oncore GPS engine on the CMM Micro. Integrating a GPS engine is not rocket science if you are designing the board anyway- its just a TTL signal. If it is as high on the list as you say, then plugging an engine onto a control board should be nothing. It could piggyback right on some sort of routerboard type piece. > Explain, WHY, I want them to incorporate a GPS on their boards... Well... Uhhmmm... Maybe because I was replying to Doug Ratcliffe who said it was high on the list. It certainly isn't ME who is asking. Why should I justify it? If I want GPS I can use Motorola. At least they are legal. Now if I have misunderstood the message threading/quoting and it wasn't Doug who said that, then just change the reference to whoever it really was who said it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Erskine Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 7:05 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Fw: [WISPA FCC] FCC 3650 band response today.. Ralph; Why bother? Tell us why they should bother doing that? It is one thing for you to bring a GPS unit to the device and quite another to ask the vendor to incorporate the GPS device on his board so please *justify* your comments. Explain, WHY, I want them to incorporate a GPS on their boards... Ralph wrote: > That isn't a reason to not use it. > A GPS Engine costs about 12 bucks. Almost all have the PPS output. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Doug Ratcliffe > Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 3:01 PM > To: 'WISPA General List' > Subject: RE: [WISPA] Fw: [WISPA FCC] FCC 3650 band response today.. > > GPS Sync has been very high up on their list, however, the issue at > the moment is that conventional serial GPS units lack the necessary > timing precision for anything other than raw timesync. > > -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
