[time-nuts] Trimble: Using RS-232 via with USB adapter

Russ Ramirez russ.ramirez at gmail.com
Fri Jan 3 11:19:14 EST 2014


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> Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 17:10:33 +1100
> From: Graeme Zimmer <gzimmer at wideband.net.au>
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
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> Subject: [time-nuts] Trimble: Using RS-232 via with USB adapter
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> Hi folks,
>
> This has probably been covered before, but I thought it worth knowing....
>
> I wanted to use my new laptop with my Trimble/Nortel GSP receiver.
> As my laptop doesn't have an RS-232 port, I purchased a cheap USB to
> RS-232 adaptor.
>
> After a few false starts I found that the older Tboltmon software runs
> quite happily via the adaptor.
>
> A pleasant surprise however was that the newer USB based TrimbleStudio
> also runs.
> The TrimbleStudio has a few nice additions over the older software.
>
>
> regards ............. Zim


Zim, thanks for posting this because somehow I missed the arrival of
TrimbleStudio...what the heck, this thing rocks!

Russ


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