From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 5 23:30:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAD7637B521 for ; Fri, 5 May 2000 23:30:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost.freebsd.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA06829; Sat, 6 May 2000 08:29:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Warner Losh Cc: Wes Peters , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPS heads up In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 May 2000 17:57:13 MDT." <200005052357.RAA57906@harmony.village.org> Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 08:29:37 +0200 Message-ID: <6827.957594577@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200005052357.RAA57906@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: >In message <3913589F.3BE7BE18@softweyr.com> Wes Peters writes: >: With 12-channel chipsets becoming common, new devices are getting quite >: good at this. > >Yes. Most of the data I have is for 6 channel models. 12-chanel chipsets are overkill if you don't live more or les exactly on the equator or one of the poles. Here where I live (56 north) about 30% of the sky is never covered by a satelite because of the inclination of the satelites being non-zero. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message