From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 19 21:15: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C753414D1A for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 21:15:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id VAA04628; Wed, 19 May 1999 21:13:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id VAA06690; Wed, 19 May 1999 21:13:31 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.39]) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA19263; Wed, 19 May 99 21:13:26 PDT Message-Id: <37438BE5.71C7B560@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 22:13:26 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Ladavac Marino , "'Joe Abley'" , Joe McGuckin , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPS receivers for xntpd (off-topic) References: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C1100276179609@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at> <199905192342.QAA44260@apollo.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote: > > : [ gps talk ] > :... > > I've been very impressed with the newer ( last 5 months ) Garmin > handhelds. The older ones only had 8 channel receivers. The newer > ones have 12 channel receivers sensitive enough that the units often > work indoors. My GPS-II was one of the first 12-channel receivers, and works just fine inside my house (lumber, brick, stucco) and my boat (fiberglass, metal mast and rigging), but not inside work (steel-frame 7 story monster) or my truck, unless I slide it up on the dash so it's not under the roof. I haven't tried duct-taping it in the sun roof on the Land Cruiser yet, but might do so this weekend. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message