[time-nuts] Getting my Rockwell D200 GPS to work
Don Lewis
dlewis6767 at austin.rr.com
Sat Jan 7 00:24:19 UTC 2012
Can someone please give me some pointers (my first time with a GPS module).
A little hand-holding, pls.
I bought three of these Rockwell D200 GPS receivers. (It's little GPS PWB
with an antenna connector and pins for connecting to the RS232- PC)
All three 'appear' to work the same way (no apparent capture of satellites).
Here's what I have:
1. VisualGPS installed and running.
2. A small USB-RS232 card installed and appears to be operational.
3. Small GPS active antenna plugged in.
4. VisualGPS monitor just repeatedly displays:
$GPGGA,,,,,,0,00,,,,,,,*66
5. I think I understand this to be NMEA code to mean no satellites have
been acquired.
6. The Rockwell D200 draws ~180ma (5V) with no antenna and ~190ma with
the small active antenna plugged in.
What am I doing wrong? Other than maybe cheap china gps' and antenna???
But it is what I could afford and thought it would be cheap to learn on.
Thanks for your help.
-Don
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