From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 6 9: 3:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C12337BBCF for ; Sat, 6 May 2000 09:03:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05249; Sat, 6 May 2000 10:03:30 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17604; Sat, 6 May 2000 10:03:29 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 10:03:29 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200005061603.KAA17604@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Warner Losh , Wes Peters , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPS heads up In-Reply-To: <6827.957594577@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <200005052357.RAA57906@harmony.village.org> <6827.957594577@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >: 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. I disagree. I routineles pick up 10-11 satellites, and I'm about half-way between the pole and the equator. Heck, I just looked, and I've got 8 locked on right now. > 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. Wow, the worst I've *ever* seen was 4 satellites here, but it may be that the GPS satellites have orbits that prefer the US? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message