[time-nuts] USB Low Cost GPS Timing Receiver

[Hal Murray]

brooke at pacific.net said:
> The telescope has around arc second pointing capability so I think he  needs
> a hundredth of a second or slightly better. 

That doesn't sound right.  What's the field of view of the telescope?


> I've found some NMEA software that will set a PC clock, but it expects  the
> data on a COM port.  Don't know how it might work with USB data. 

I don't use Windows, but most likely it will magically show up as COMx when 
you plug it in.


>> It is not clear whether the message is fixed of if it will reply
>> to queries.

Normally, NMEA devices send a clump of "sentences" each second.  Usually, you 
can turn off the ones you don't want.



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