[time-nuts] Star Box

[Joseph Gray]

I just picked up a Star Box for $10. It has an Allstar DGPS board inside. I
saw several mentions of similar boards in the archives and I have found
some documentation on the net. Has anyone actually used one of these in a
GPSDO? Does it work any better than the usual Motorola, Rockwell, or other
available boards?

The other thought is, since this is a DGPS board, how difficult would it be
to use it to obtain a more accurate position fix? Or do I need other GPS
boards to correlate this one with?

I'll admit that so far, I have only skimmed the documentation that I
downloaded. If I need to RTFM for my answers, just tell me so.

Some data on what I have:

Star Box Part No. 100-600304-100
(DGPS Base Station option is checked)

Inside the box is a carrier board that has a power supply and an RS-232
TX/RX chip. The GPS board that plugs onto the carrier has a label on the
underside that says "VAR 100". This corresponds to the suffix of the part
number on the box. The top side of the GPS board has the GPS receiver in a
large metal box that is imbossed "ALLSTAR 12" and "CMC", which is the
manufacturer (since then bought by Novatel?).


Joe Gray
W5JG