[time-nuts] Difference in GPS antennas

Robert Darlington rdarlington at gmail.com
Fri Aug 14 15:15:59 UTC 2009


My Panasonic VIC100 antenna had a few screws to hold the bottom to the
plastic cone top.  The bottom had an o-ring seal that stuck a little but was
still pretty easy to slide the bottom from the top half.  Inside was a patch
antenna on top of a pcb.

-Bob

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

>
> > I took one of those conical timing antennas apart only to find that it
> > has the same ceramic patch as most cheap GPS antennas.
>
> How did you get it apart?
>
> I have a Lucent antenna that died.  That seemed like a good enough excuse
> to
> look inside.  I removed a set of screws on the bottom that looked like they
> were holding the top on.  I still couldn't get the top off.  I assumed it
> was
> glued on which could make a weatherproof seal.  But then why did they
> bother
> with the screws?
>
>
>
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