NMEA is just ASCII text. You can read the output in terminal window. Every second the GPS will send a set of "sentences".
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Dave Martindale <dave.martind...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tomorrow evening, I'm going to a leap second barbecue. The barbecue itself > was the idea of a friend, but I'm bringing the equipment to show the leap > second. > > My main setup is a Thunderbolt, Lady Heather running on a PC laptop, and a > serial to USB converter. It's all working sitting here on a desk this > evening, so the only thing I can't test in advance is the leap second > itself. I haven't had the Thunderbolt running during a leap second before, > but there is a YouTube video showing the June 2012 leap second as handled > by a Thunderbolt and Lady Heather, so I'm assuming all will work as > expected. > > Never one to trust a single piece of hardware completely, I want to bring a > backup. I have an old Garmin GPS-25 board mounted in a box with power > supply and RS-232 level converters, so I want to bring it too. I have > watched a leap second previously on the GPS-25, so I know it handles the > event properly. But the GPS-25 is NMEA output so it won't work with Lady > Heather. I need something else to display a digital clock that everyone > can see, from a NMEA data stream. > > VisualGPS displays a bunch of interesting stuff, but not time. U-center > from u-blox displays UTC as both analog and digital clock, and the analog > clock can be made as large as you have screen space for. Does anyone know > what it does with a leap second? > > Are there other programs I should look at? > > - Dave > _______________________________________________ > 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. -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ 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.