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Date:      Wed, 19 May 1999 07:37:42 -0600
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>
Cc:        Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Any interest in GPS NTP servers ?  (fwd)
Message-ID:  <3742BEA6.E01BFF40@softweyr.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905191037290.2658-100000@kim.ispra.webweaving.org>

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Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
> 
> At home I quite happyly use a cheap DeLorme GPS connected to xntpd
> and it just works and works and works :-) I did modify the serial
> output port though; to get a 5v signal on the RI; which the DeLorme
> unit can use instead of its batteries.
> 
> But then again; these things both output serial NMEA, no proper
> ethernet; and no easy to use PPS signal unless you solder something.

But NTP does have support for the $GPRMC sentence, right?  I've been
using my Garmin GPS-II off and on since I bought it; it was sort of
purchased to play with NTP, then used on my sailboat.  Yah, right.  ;^)

-- 
       "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                 Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr                      wes@softweyr.com


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