GPS program
Yes, the Garmin program would be welcome. We should encourage the author
to declare "I surrender my copyright and place this program in the
public domain" (which is the proper an unambiguous language), or we should
get him to put it under a familiar license like the GPL.
I got a Garmin GPS II over the weekend. They are $200 in the Ham Radio Outlet
http://www.hamradio.com/ and they seem to be alot of GPS for the money. Be
warned that they disable themselves when your land speed exceeds 104 statute
miles per hour, this is to protect Garmin's higher-priced aviation products.
I always percieve this is protection of the competition more than your
own brands, but Garmin has had years to get the clue.
One thing that a GPS is useful for is that they have a time base as accurate
as you will ever get your hands on without an atomic clock of your own.
Their clock is locked to the atomic clock on the satellite, which is locked
to a super-accurate cluster of 6 atomic clocks at the US Naval Observatory.
We need a daemon that will synchronize the Linux clock to the GPS.
Does anyone have a copy of the DGPS 104 protocol as used by the 3090 kHz
Coast Guard transmitters?
Thanks
Bruce
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