[time-nuts] Req: Decent GPS Antenna Active/PassiveRecommendation

John C. Westmoreland, P.E. john at westmorelandengineering.com
Sun Sep 15 09:39:42 UTC 2013


Hello David,

The polar orbiting APT antenna looks interesting.

Thanks again for the pics!  And - I know your call sign now too!

73's,
John
AJ6BC


On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 2:14 AM, David J Taylor <
david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello David,
>
> Thanks for the pic!
>
> Well, I need something that I can put outside, in the weather, with my
> verticals, and other antennas.  I am a Ham radio enthusiast, and I want
> something I can properly mount and can be an all-weather device and can
> live happily 'in the farm' so to speak.
>
> I should have been more specific.
>
> Thanks Again,
> John Westmoreland
> AJ6BC - (that's my call sign)
> ==============================**=====================
>
>
> Thanks for the clarification, John.  I'm sure others will answer your
> question, but here I have not found the need for an outdoors GPS antenna,
> being located on the top floor of a two-storey building, in a good VHF
> location.  This with one exception - an older Garmin GPS 18 LVC, which had
> the sensitivity of decade-old devices, not the modern chips.  That just
> sits on the sloping roof, actually on the opposite side of the roof from
> these antennas:
>
>  http://www.satsignal.eu/wxsat/**atovs/pic_old-and-new.jpg<http://www.satsignal.eu/wxsat/atovs/pic_old-and-new.jpg>
>
> from:
>  http://www.satsignal.eu/wxsat/**atovs/index.html<http://www.satsignal.eu/wxsat/atovs/index.html>
>
> 73,
> David GM8ARV
>
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