Joe, I'm not sure I had much influence, but I at least try to advocate for it to become a good market, so hopefully it will be affordable. It has actually been affordable for quite some time, so going multifrequency should be the next step and with that the benefits.
Cheers, Magnus On 04/01/2018 07:04 PM, Joseph Gray wrote: > Magnus, > > When I can buy one of these new, multi-frequency receivers, I'll remember > to thank you :-) I wonder if any of the three will be available this year. > The Broadcom chipset in phones will be nice, but I'd also like a standalone > module from anyone. More fun stuff to play with. > > Joe Gray > W5JG > > > On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 3:15 AM, Magnus Danielson <mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org >> wrote: > >> Hi Joe, >> >> On 03/31/2018 01:16 PM, Joseph Gray wrote: >>> I've been reading announcements by Broadcom, uBlox and ST Micro for new >>> chipsets that will use L1, L2, L5 to provide significantly more precise >>> positioning for every day applications like cell phone, autonomous >>> vehicles, UAV, etc. Broadcom is claiming 30 cm, uBlox just says >> "centimeter >>> level". The next few years ought to be very interesting, as these >> chipsets >>> become available in consumer products. >> >> I have advocated for receivers able to handle multiple frequencies and >> multiple GNSS for some time, sneaking it into documents, so there should >> be some preparations for this now. >> >> The benefit is naturally redundancy, but also higher precision. >> >> Natural I would enjoy cheap multi-frequency receivers myself, but I >> would never admit that this would be a reason for advocating it. ;-) >> >> Cheers, >> Magnus >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.