From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 6 11: 7:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (mail.dohboys.com [208.26.253.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A80D37BC55 for ; Sat, 6 May 2000 11:07:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.241.195]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Sat, 6 May 2000 11:12:19 -0700 Message-ID: <39145F5F.4C64B914@3-cities.com> Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 11:07:27 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Warner Losh , Wes Peters , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPS heads up References: <200005061603.KAA17604@nomad.yogotech.com> <9040.957629310@critter.freebsd.dk> <200005061611.KAA17656@nomad.yogotech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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