[time-nuts] Star Box

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Pretty much everything made from silicon goes through 3-4 year cycles. Anything that's 10 years old is a couple of cycles behind. It's probably not going to work as well as an LEA-6T or even a LEA-5T. It might be competitive with a 4T or a 3T. 

Bob

On Aug 15, 2013, at 10:47 PM, Joseph Gray <jgray at zianet.com> wrote:

> I just picked up a Star Box for $10. It has an Allstar DGPS board inside. I
> saw several mentions of similar boards in the archives and I have found
> some documentation on the net. Has anyone actually used one of these in a
> GPSDO? Does it work any better than the usual Motorola, Rockwell, or other
> available boards?
> 
> The other thought is, since this is a DGPS board, how difficult would it be
> to use it to obtain a more accurate position fix? Or do I need other GPS
> boards to correlate this one with?
> 
> I'll admit that so far, I have only skimmed the documentation that I
> downloaded. If I need to RTFM for my answers, just tell me so.
> 
> Some data on what I have:
> 
> Star Box Part No. 100-600304-100
> (DGPS Base Station option is checked)
> 
> Inside the box is a carrier board that has a power supply and an RS-232
> TX/RX chip. The GPS board that plugs onto the carrier has a label on the
> underside that says "VAR 100". This corresponds to the suffix of the part
> number on the box. The top side of the GPS board has the GPS receiver in a
> large metal box that is imbossed "ALLSTAR 12" and "CMC", which is the
> manufacturer (since then bought by Novatel?).
> 
> 
> Joe Gray
> W5JG
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