[time-nuts] GPS timing receivers - what now?
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Jul 20 19:38:30 UTC 2005
In message <4D57CA67-9887-4B59-82DB-E82EC06EE5BA at jcmco.com>, Jim Miller writes:
>
>On Jul 20, 2005, at 3:06 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> The really interesting one would be to get a pci board with the
>> "host-assisted" SiRF GPS chip and be able to do our own math on
>> the raw measurements :-)
>
>Another (probably crazy) thought came to mind... I wonder if the
>GNURadio can be used to demodulate signals at L1 either directly or
>through a downconverter/LNB.. We could make a software defined GPS
>receiver - a GNUGPS! Twiddling the software could make it support
>Galileo..or Glonass.. or the new civilian GPS frequencies.
I belive there is a radio-frontend in the works which will cover
the L1 frequency but the USB2 bandwidth is limited to 6 MHz
of spectrum so I'm not sure how creative we can get.
--
Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk at FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
More information about the Time-nuts_lists.febo.com
mailing list