[time-nuts] Odetics 325/425 owners, rejoice!

[Stan Searing]

I have an Odetics 325 that I'll make available to a fellow time-nut
for what I paid.  I got it recently at auction for $56 and it looks like the
oscillator was removed.  There was a note on it that it has a defective
LCD (or OCD?).  I didn't notice any signs that anything besides the
oscillator is missing.  It does have the Magellan OEM5000 receiver.

Please email off-list if interested.
First priority would be to someone who can pick it up
in San Jose or Mountain View, CA.

Stan



-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Bruce Lane
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 7:31 PM
To: time-nuts at febo.com
Subject: [time-nuts] Odetics 325/425 owners, rejoice!

Fellow clock-tickers,

	Thanks to the generous assistance of a customer service rep at
Magellan Navigation, I have received a full .PDF manual covering the
Magellan OEM5000 receiver module used in many of the Odetics SatSync 325 and
425 GPS clock units.

	This manual contains full details on both ASCII and Magellan Binary
outputs from the receiver, including that previously-elusive PMGLK sentence
that was driving me nuts.

	The information in that manual, combined with a bit of hardware
ingenuity in the microcontroller world and the Odetics equipment manual,
should be enough to produce a hardware translation device which will
(hopefully) allow the use of a standard (and much more readily available)
NMEA-output receiver module. That's going to be a long-term project for me
in the coming year.

	Anyone who wants to try and beat me to it is, of course, welcome.
;-)

	The manual may be found on the Blue Feather FTP archive.

	ftp.bluefeathertech.com

	Sign in as user ftp and the password can be anything you want
(though I prefer an E-mail for logging purposes).

	The path is /electronics/radio/GPS/receivers/OEM/Magellan/oem5000

	The file name is OEM5K.pdf

	Happy reading.


-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m
"Quid Malmborg in Plano..."


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