From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 8 20:17:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA08000 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 20:17:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA07988 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 20:17:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt2-57.HiWAAY.net [208.147.148.57]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA05128 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 22:05:31 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA13302 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 21:40:48 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199801090340.VAA13302@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: FreeBSD Hackers From: David Kelly Subject: Re: GPS for xntpd Stratum 1 servers In-reply-to: Message from Michael Hancock of "Thu, 08 Jan 1998 18:06:47 +0900." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 21:40:48 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, David Kelly wrote: > > > If you are on the 15th floor of a 30 floor building then you are going > > to have troubles with the GPS in any case. Any view out the window will > > have less than half the sky visible. Sometimes there may not be enough > > satelites visible for a lock. > > Yeah, Mike Smith suggested RS-232 <==> Fiber <==> RS-232 to the roof, but > unfortunately doing that costs an arm and a leg in this concrete jungle. > Er, maybe just a leg these days. So whatcha do is take that old 386sx16 and put it on ethernet, up on the roof with the GPS, and let it be the timeserver. > > Was it the GPS-30PC TAPR bought closout from Garmin? $99, > > Don't know, I just came across the site last night. I've been a member of TAPR since 198[45], can't remember, but I do know I'm member #2111. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.