Hi John, I am trying to figure what the advantage is for an antenna with the built-in GPS receiver is. This was the approach many years ago when low noise/high gain pre-amps were not available. Today, the good LNA's are cheap and work great. Plus this limits the use to just one user end application. With the standard GPS antenna & LNA you can use a 4-port (or more) splitter and distribute the signal to several receivers. And the cost of 8-conductor cable is probably more expensive than good LMR coax for the same length of run. And if you have a long run you would have to use RS422 instead of RS232 for a reliable setup.
Pctel is a good company and they have done well with the timing antenna design that they took over from Micro Pulse. But I just don't think this will be a big seller for them. The only possible reason I can come up with to go this route would be that you have a lot of RFI in the lab or wherever and need to remote the receiver away from the RFI source. And even then that's not a guarantee! 73's Doug Baker On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 7:35 PM John Miller via time-nuts < time-nuts@lists.febo.com> wrote: > Hello All, > I was browsing around looking at surplussed reference antennas, like you > do, and I stumbled across something really interesting and impulse bought > it because it was cheap enough. It’s a PCTEL GPS-TMG-RCVR232-NLM - the 232 > in the model name may catch your eye. Before reading the model number, what > got me was the connector on the bottom - not N or TNC like you may expect, > but a large aviation-style 8 pin DIN connector. > > I found a spec sheet here: > https://www.winncom.com/pdf/PCTel_GPS_TMG_RCVR/PCTel_GPS-TMG-RCVR_Series.pdf > < > https://www.winncom.com/pdf/PCTel_GPS_TMG_RCVR/PCTel_GPS-TMG-RCVR_Series.pdf > > > > Nothing too impressive, but it looks neat to me. As long as it doesn’t > have leap second issues, I’m going to incorporate it into the rest of my > stack. > > Has anyone ever used one of these before? Any familiarity? > > Regards, > John > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com -- To unsubscribe send > an email to time-nuts-le...@lists.febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com -- To unsubscribe send an email to time-nuts-le...@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to and follow the instructions there.
