Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 11:07:27 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPS heads up Message-ID: <39145F5F.4C64B914@3-cities.com> References: <200005061603.KAA17604@nomad.yogotech.com> <9040.957629310@critter.freebsd.dk> <200005061611.KAA17656@nomad.yogotech.com>
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Nate Williams wrote: > > > >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. > > > > Right, 8 is the norm. When you have 10 or 11 a couple or four of them > > are so low on the horizon that they hardly matter. > > Actually, the horizon ones are the best ones for calculating altitude, > so they are very much being used. And, from looking at the satellite > map, only a couple of them are on the horizon. (I *really* like the > Garmin 12 unit. :) Does anyone have a unit that picks up the Russian GLONASS satellites and well as the USA GPS? It is supposed to improve the accuracy. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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