[time-nuts] adafruit $40 GPS

Don Latham djl at montana.com
Tue May 14 14:52:16 EDT 2013


All the adafruit modules have built-in patch antennae. id 746 has
provision on the breakout board for an external antenna. That shiny
patch with the oddly-placed little solder knurdle on it is a patch
antenna...
George Lu
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Chris Albertson
> <albertson.chris at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> The adafruit GPS has a built in antenna.  But you can add an external
>> one.
>>
>> But why use this for timing?  They don't even give a spec for timing
>> accuracy and it is likely NOT a timing GPS.  It is  a navigation unit.
>>  Pretty much useless for timing.
>>
>>
> According to the documentation at
> http://www.adafruit.com/datasheets/GlobalTop-FGPMMOPA6H-Datasheet-V0A.pdf:
>
> High accuracy 1-PPS timing support for Timing Appli
> cations (10ns jitter)
>
> George
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