[ntp:questions] Consumer GPS question
shane-dated-1173390111.6930ef at cm.nu
shane-dated-1173390111.6930ef at cm.nu
Tue Feb 6 21:45:36 UTC 2007
>What OS and what kind of receiver? I've used a handheld on my Windows
>desktop with, um, amusing results. I used PPS, but the NMEA app couldn't
>tell whether the pulse belonged to the previous second or the upcoming
>second, with the result that I was always one second slow. Then, of course,
>there's Windows' granularity issues, which assured that even with PPS
>properly configured I wouldn't have been able to get much below 20 ms.
>With a real OS and a dedicated receiver (save the Magellan for hiking), you
>ought to get better results than I did--sub-millisecond, I would think.
The setup would use ntpd under Linux 2.6, possibly patched with PPS if
that's needed.
Shane
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