[ntp:questions] Good GPS for attic?
W. D.
WD at US-Webmasters.com
Fri Feb 11 17:48:25 UTC 2005
At 08:44 2/11/2005, Jonathan Sturges wrote:
>Hi,
>I'm looking to use a GPS receiver as an inexpensive reference clock for
>an xntpd time server. I'd like to leave the GPS in my attic for
>convenience and asthetics.
>A while back I bought a Radio Shack DigiTraveller GPS for this purpose.
> It's ideal on almost all counts except that it can't keep a consistent
>lock from my attic. It's close though (maybe if I could mount it above
>the insulation that would help).
>
>Can anyone recommend another inexpensive GPS that might be more
>sensitive? I don't want fancy, just plain-jane with a serial port that
>can spit out NMEA strings for xntpd. PPS would also be nice, but I'd be
>happy without it too. (I'm mostly doing this to have a time reference
>for household computers, and also just the experience of setting this
>up. Fantastic precision would be nice but certainly not required for
>this particular project.)
>
>thanks,
>Jonathan
This one works for me:
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