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What can I do with a free GPS receiver with a coax connection?
Is the free T-Mobile temporary GPS unit useful for anything else?
I think the FBI intercepted my shipment to place a surreptitious bug inside, but finally my free T-Mobile personal hotspot Internet-to-Ceullar home microtower arrived yesterday! http://i.cubeupload.com/uNXXgZ.jpg It's confusing because T-Mobile MARKETING calls everything a "personal hotspot": http://i.cubeupload.com/dIGbMo.jpg So it's hard to distinguish the cellular-only microtower from the internet-cellular microtower, but now I have both. http://i.cubeupload.com/WoN2gQ.jpg Interestingly the Internet-micro-tower comes with temporary GPS: http://i.cubeupload.com/HCc6Ss.jpg Can that temporary GPS be used for anything useful? |
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"Stijn De Jong" wrote in message news Is the free T-Mobile temporary GPS unit useful for anything else? I think the FBI intercepted my shipment to place a surreptitious bug inside, but finally my free T-Mobile personal hotspot Internet-to-Ceullar home microtower arrived yesterday! http://i.cubeupload.com/uNXXgZ.jpg It's confusing because T-Mobile MARKETING calls everything a "personal hotspot": http://i.cubeupload.com/dIGbMo.jpg So it's hard to distinguish the cellular-only microtower from the internet-cellular microtower, but now I have both. http://i.cubeupload.com/WoN2gQ.jpg Interestingly the Internet-micro-tower comes with temporary GPS: http://i.cubeupload.com/HCc6Ss.jpg Can that temporary GPS be used for anything useful? Yes, if it can fit up Raeanne's snatch. |
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What can I do with a free GPS receiver with a coax connection?
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Stijn De Jong wrote: http://i.cubeupload.com/HCc6Ss.jpg The GPS unit will output single-line ASCII "sentences", some of which will contain very precise location and time info (GPS time, that is). If you're interested, google on "NMEA 0183" to get a list of the things it can tell you. Isaac |
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On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 21:52:57 -0800, isw wrote:
The GPS unit will output single-line ASCII "sentences", some of which will contain very precise location and time info (GPS time, that is). If you're interested, google on "NMEA 0183" to get a list of the things it can tell you. NMEA 0183 is a combined electrical and data specification for communication between marine electronics such as echo sounder, sonars, anemometer, gyrocompass, autopilot, GPS receivers and many other types of instruments. It has been defined by, and is controlled by, the National Marine Electronics Association. Can I somehow plug that NMEA-compliant cable into my phone? Or into my laptop? Or a desktop? https://www.fugawi.com/knowledge_base/document/HD25110 The wiring looks like it can maybe go to a DB9 but do laptops even have DB9s nowadays? https://www.fugawi.com/knowledge_base/document/HD25700 |
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Stijn De Jong wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 21:52:57 -0800, isw wrote: The GPS unit will output single-line ASCII "sentences", some of which will contain very precise location and time info (GPS time, that is). If you're interested, google on "NMEA 0183" to get a list of the things it can tell you. NMEA 0183 is a combined electrical and data specification for communication between marine electronics such as echo sounder, sonars, anemometer, gyrocompass, autopilot, GPS receivers and many other types of instruments. It has been defined by, and is controlled by, the National Marine Electronics Association. Yes, it is. And if you look someplace like he http://www.gpsinformation.org/dale/nmea.htm you can find a list of the "sentences" taht a GPS unit outputs/ Can I somehow plug that NMEA-compliant cable into my phone? Or into my laptop? Or a desktop? https://www.fugawi.com/knowledge_base/document/HD25110 The wiring looks like it can maybe go to a DB9 but do laptops even have DB9s nowadays? https://www.fugawi.com/knowledge_base/document/HD25700 You may have to go right to the GPS subunit to get the data, but you can use any of several makes of serial-USB adapters, and any sort of TTY emulator your OS supports. FWIW, I have found ones using CP-2102 and Ft232 chips to be reliable, and ones with the PL2303 to be not so good. Take care to get the polarity and voltages correct; most of the adapters (but not all) use "TTL-level RS-232", where the logic one and zero levels are inverted from "normal" RS-232. I have no idea what sort of signal levels that particular device emits. The GPS unit will output ASCII "sentences" which are plain text. Isaac |
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"isw" wrote in message ... In article , Stijn De Jong wrote: The GPS unit will output ASCII "sentences" which are plain text. I plugged the GPS unit into a serial port on an old laptop and I started PuTTY and when Raeanne walked by This appeared $RAEANNE,Swamp,Donkey*13 $RAEANNE,Slut*6 $RAEANNE,Bagwhore*10 $RAEANNE,Hillbilly*11 $RAEANNE,Incest,Crazed,Skank*21 |
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