I love the "lightweight" comment. It has to weigh 20kg!
On 7 March 2011 19:19, <gandal...@aol.com> wrote: > It seems to be an L1/L2 dual frequency surveying receiver. > Searching for "minimac 2816", without the "AT", seemed to produce a few > more results with the following from 1988 amongst them.... > > _http://cedb.asce.org/cgi/WWWdisplay.cgi?58399_ > (http://cedb.asce.org/cgi/WWWdisplay.cgi?58399) > --------------- > > A new portable dual-frequency Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver is > being delivered to customers by Aero Service. The MINI-MAC Model 2816 > receiver is lightweigt, portable, and designed for operation by one person > in > field environments. The receiver is packaged to withstand harsh > environmental conditions and deliver dual-frequency data of the highest > quality. > Decoded broadcast ephemerides allow for field data. Time and pseudoranges > obtained via the unit’s coarse/acquisition (C/A) code L1 capability are > used to > obtain precise time synchronization. The receivers record on canonical > times, > so it is not necessary to start different receivers at the same time in > order to maintain synchronous phase observations. The MINI-MAC 2816 > Surveyor > is capable of tracking up to eight satellites simultaneously using C/A > code > on L1 and Aero’s proven proprietary codeless methods on L2. An L1-only > version, Model 1816, is also available. Phase lock can be maintained on up > to > eight satellites in kinematic operations. The receiver is designed for > future implementation of kinematic software without any required hardware > changes. Various aspects of the receiver are discussed and details of a > number of > field results are provided. > > ------------------ > > regards > > Nigel > GM8PZR > _______________________________________________ > 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.