Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 21:40:48 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: FreeBSD Hackers <Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: GPS for xntpd Stratum 1 servers Message-ID: <199801090340.VAA13302@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> of "Thu, 08 Jan 1998 18:06:47 %2B0900." <Pine.SV4.3.95.980108175050.3352A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
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> 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.
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