[time-nuts] adafruit $40 GPS

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The operative question how significant is the error when used for NTP.

If the adafruit is the path of least effort and the error is not significant, I'd spend the extra $20. 

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From: Chris Albertson <albertson.chris at gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 15:22:05 
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Subject: Re: [time-nuts] adafruit $40 GPS

OK, not useless, just an order of magnitude worse than something that
cost less than 1/2 the price.  But you are right that many people only
care about hundredths of seconds.

The main problem with the nav receivers is they don't do a self survey
so there is some position uncertainty.   But that only applies if you
care about nanoseconds.

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Bert, VE2ZAZ <ve2zaz at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Why should a navigation GPS be useless for timing? A lot of people use Oncore GT+ GPS's with satisfactory results. In the end, it all depends on the performance you expect from your system...
>
> Regards,
>
> Bert, VE2ZAZ
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> 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.
>
> Also the price is to high.  You can do better in eBay, real timing
> units sell for as little as $15.
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