[LinuxPPS] do we need hardpps <- yes!!

Remco dB besten at gmail.com
Sat Feb 6 15:08:02 CET 2010


On Saturday 06 February 2010 14:27:51 Udo van den Heuvel wrote:

> My Garmin GPS18LVC only guarantees the rising edge to be within +/- 1
> microsecond of the GPS second start.
> Unfortunately, pulse length is set in miliseconds, with 20 ms
> increments, starting at 20 ms unto 980 ms.
> I was thinking of using the falling edge trick for serial GPS as well.
> But this doesn't look so feasible now with this GPS.
> 

For more precision concerning the second epochs, a Motorola
Oncore GPS-receiver could be used. 
At this time of writing a Chinese supplier sells UT+'s for U$ 5.00 (!)
excl posting and shipping on Ebay. 

Remco



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