Hi GPS is not very helpful for direction. It can be used as an accurate source of time and location to feed a solar or celestial direction estimate.
Bob On Aug 25, 2010, at 9:04 PM, David Smith <da...@smithfamily.net.au> wrote: > As a fair percentage of the discussion amongst the learned gentlemen on this > group involves GPS-based timing systems, I'd like to ask a non-time related, > but GPS-related question. > > As part of microwave radio experimentation, often on windy hilltops, I have a > need to find direction very accurately. I have seen advertised GPS-based > Azimuth Pointing Systems such as this: > http://www.ascscientific.com/APS.html > However they are a little (lot) out of my budget range. > > The system seems to work by taking the raw satellite phase information from > two separate GPS systems and crunching the data to come up with an azimuth > figure. Has anyone heard of a (Open Source?) program that could be used to > do these calculations? > > Regards, > David Smith > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
