where do you buy these $20 GPS's >From: Russell McMahon >Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list >To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU >Subject: GPS units >Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 23:40:52 +1300 > >- Has anyone who bought the $20 GPS units done a master reset and then had >successful subsequent operation? >- Are there any users in the Southern hemisphere? > >A friend fired up one of these today and after a little playing sent one of >the commands which the $20 GPS site said seemed not to work. >After this the unit seemed not to work at all :-) >Sending a master reset command still doesn't produce output. > >The unit reports seeing a number of satellites but all report zero signal >level. >He theorises that the unit may be "estimating" its start position and >deeming all satellites below the horizon as we are in southern hemisphere. >I don't know if this is a good explanation. > >Has anyone else had the unit "go to sleep" on them? > > > > > > Russell McMahon >_____________________________ > >From another world - www.easttimor.com > >What can one man* do? >Help the hungry at no cost to yourself! >at http://www.thehungersite.com/ > >(* - or woman, child or internet enabled intelligent entity :-)) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com