[time-nuts] GPS-18, Windows, NTP & Lat Lon

Bob Stewart bob at evoria.net
Tue Sep 3 21:30:28 EDT 2013


One very direct way is to find some software to sniff the com port where the GPS receiver is.  I'm a Linux guy, so I can't help you on that one.

Bob - AE6RV





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> From: Jim Lux <jimlux at earthlink.net>
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>Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 7:35 PM
>Subject: [time-nuts] GPS-18, Windows, NTP & Lat Lon
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>I'm looking for an easy way to get current lat lon, when you've got a GPS-18 hooked up for NTP.  That is, the GPS receiver is there doing it's NTP thing, so presumably it knows where it is.
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>If NTP is decoding the GPRMC message, it has the lat/lon in it, so how can I get that info out (in a command line utility, into a file, or some such)
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>I don't need millisecond time accuracy.. For now the GPS is just to make sure that the time is "right".
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>The GPGGA sentence would also do.
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>And, I only need the GPS position once within a 30 second interval (it's not moving, I just want to know where it is).
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>It's not like ntpd or ntpq have some handy switch that says "display current lat/lon"  (which makes sense, because NTP is fundamentally time source agnostic).
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>All of this with Windows 7.
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>Jim
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