Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS card, Linux quirk

2012-02-04 Thread Don Latham
The CP2102 is featured in Chinese ebay 4 buck usb-232 adapters. The chip suffers from serious bad-driveritis, and I've had to do 'net research to make it useful with various flavors of Windoze. Don Hal Murray > > I'm in the habit of using things like: > cat /dev/ttyUSB0 > when checking out GPS t

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-18 Thread Tom Van Baak
Thanks for all the info. I wasn't aware that leapsecond did any testing on the unit. Now I gotta play more with it. Rix Seacord K2AVP Right, I ordered one too when the thread started in November. I just updated the "lab report" page to include 1PPS risetime and TTL/RS232 NMEA latency/jitter mea

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-18 Thread Rix Seacord
Thanks for all the info. I wasn't aware that leapsecond did any testing on the unit. Now I gotta play more with it. Rix Seacord K2AVP eseac...@verizon.net 845-628-0892 914-262-9186 On 1/17/2011 11:50 AM, Scott Burris wrote: http://www.sureelectronics.net/goods.php?id=99 Scott On 1/17/2011 8

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-17 Thread Scott Burris
http://www.sureelectronics.net/goods.php?id=99 Scott On 1/17/2011 8:27 AM, paul swed wrote: This particular link does not seem to offer the gps board On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Scott Burris wrote: On 1/16/2011 9:49 PM, Rix Seacord wrote: Dick and Tom The gps is sold on ebay in seve

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-17 Thread paul swed
This particular link does not seem to offer the gps board On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Scott Burris wrote: > On 1/16/2011 9:49 PM, Rix Seacord wrote: > >> Dick and Tom >> The gps is sold on ebay in several different versions. >> The don't have a web site under their name. The manual, virtua

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-17 Thread Scott Burris
On 1/16/2011 9:49 PM, Rix Seacord wrote: Dick and Tom The gps is sold on ebay in several different versions. The don't have a web site under their name. The manual, virtual drivers and software are down loadable via their ebay offer. There is a www.sure-electronics.com site but it takes you to

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-17 Thread John Green
I bought one and though I haven't done any scientific tests, I can say that it is very easy to hook up and use. I have not been able to use the bluetooth function, though. It is also very sensitive and gets a first fix quickly from cold. The DOP figures look too good to be true, getting as good as

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-17 Thread David J Taylor
.. and has anyone compared the with-Bluetooth version (slightly cheaper, and in-stick) versus the "toothless" variant? They look very similar to me. Cheers, David -- SatSignal software - quality software written to your requirements Web: http://www.satsignal.eu Email: david-tay...@blueyonder

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-17 Thread Tom Van Baak
Has anyone had any experience with the demo gps receiver being sold on Ebay by Sure Electronics. I have been running one, off and on, for about a month. The stability of its position plots is unbelievable compared to similar plots from Motorola Oncore, Garmin and Trimble Thunderbolt receivers.

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-17 Thread paul swed
The DC468 simulator is not at all picky accept for the one time sentence. I think I looked at the same unit but was thinking about the jitter and accuracy of the 1 pps for a gps controlled oscillator. It was not really apparent, but I think it was not a good choice for that app. Regards Paul. On S

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-17 Thread Kiwi Geoff
Rix Seacord wrote: > The SureElectronics unit is general within 10 feet with no observed off the > wall excursions. One possibility Rix, perhaps it may be like the Garmin 18x which has a very stable position with no sudden excursions ( with its Average Mode ON ). The 18x gives position in discret

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-17 Thread cook michael
The SureElectronics unit is general within 10 feet with no observed off the wall excursions. With that in mind, I wonder how accurate is their 1pps output? Hi, There was some discussion on the MG1613S earlier. I ordered one off the bay and did a few test. I tried to post some pics of t

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-16 Thread Tom Van Baak
With that in mind, I wonder how accurate is their 1pps output? Pretty good for $40. About 60 ns peak-to-peak (22 ns stdev) about the mean. /tvb ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mail

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Albertson
I found those too. But also found many Motorola units that had what I thought were better specs, and certainly better written user manuals. I guess you could run the suplied software and then snoop on the serial interface to figure out what commands the sure GPS accepts. Can it be put into "positi

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-16 Thread Rix Seacord
Dick and Tom The gps is sold on ebay in several different versions. The don't have a web site under their name. The manual, virtual drivers and software are down loadable via their ebay offer. There is a www.sure-electronics.com site but it takes you to ebay. The one I have uses a skylab receive

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-16 Thread jim s
I was looking at one of these units for the conversion project for the 468 clocks, sounds like these might be good units. I think I searched for gps and rs232 and hit them on the first page. JIm On 1/16/2011 5:07 PM, Tom Clifton wrote: I have purchased many items over the past few years from

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-16 Thread Tom Clifton
I have purchased many items over the past few years from Sure and have never been dissapointed in that I receive.  They do seem to have multiple seller accounts, each with different items - sureelectonics sureelectronics1 sureelectronics2 etc. Any way, I did a serch by seller and found a MG1613

Re: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS

2011-01-16 Thread Richard W. Solomon
Got a link ? A search on Sure Electronics comes up empty. 73, Dick, W1KSZ -Original Message- >From: Rix Seacord >Sent: Jan 16, 2011 3:35 PM >To: time-nuts@febo.com >Subject: [time-nuts] Sure Electronics GPS > >Has anyone had any experience with the demo gps receiver being sold on >Ebay