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

[Anthony Stirk]

Hi John,

I've found as long as the module has lock the level of timing isn't going
to change so you can use anything really (heck we even us ceramic chip
antennas on some boards). For outside use any active automotive patch
should be fine but keep the lead as short as possible. Again I don't
believe the antenna actually needs to be outside the NEO-6T modules will
give timing with just one satellite so as long as you can get a lock
indoors you should be fine.

I run a pair of chinese magnetic patch antennas indoors (on top my bench
PSU) in the window.

Cheers,

Anthony M0UPU


On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 10:14 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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