Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS18x LVC problem since firmware 3.50

2010-12-29 Thread Rob
David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: Following my previous message, I can confirm that the NMEA output from the GPS18x LVC with the firmware 3.50 upgrade is coming out something like a second after the PPS signal, and worse, it's very variable so sometimes just before

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS18x LVC problem since firmware 3.50

2010-12-29 Thread David J Taylor
Rob nom...@example.com wrote in message news:slrnihlurn.9vm.nom...@xs8.xs4all.nl... [] Technically, the timestamps in the NMEA messages are the time of fix, not the current time. So a receiver can rightfully keep a calculated fix in memory and send it at some later time, with the timestamp of

Re: [ntp:questions] Garmin GPS18x LVC problem since firmware 3.50

2010-12-29 Thread Rob
David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: Whilst I understand what you are saying, it seems that this unit /used/ to work as most people expected, with the NMEA output being within the current second rather than outside it, and therefore that /something/ may have changed

[ntp:questions] Garmin GPS18x LVC problem since firmware 3.50

2010-12-28 Thread David J Taylor
Folks, Following my previous message, I can confirm that the NMEA output from the GPS18x LVC with the firmware 3.50 upgrade is coming out something like a second after the PPS signal, and worse, it's very variable so sometimes just before the PPS leading edge, and sometimes after. No wonder