My thanks to Tony and Phil for publishing pictures of their
builds, and to everyone else, like Keith,?who has given details of their
construction. All of your experiences are helping me plan my own
installation.
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Both of my units are currently languishing in a drawer,
pending Hans' return and his words of wisdom. The U2's USP for me was that it
could be portable and self-contained. I wanted the ability to set up a WSPR
beacon in the middle of nowhere without having to take a load of other
equipment. The U2 should work out its location, sort out its clock to WSPR
standards, and start to talk. Mine have both got the location sorted, but the
lack of pps functionality means that neither the location nor the timing are
usable. I'm confident that we shall see a solution soon. Sadly, I have a trip to
the Highlands on Wednesday that will most likely be too premature for
that.
In the meantime, I have shack-bound WSPR capabilities that
I can go back to using. But I was so looking forward to being portable
;-(
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A naive question. What did the Beta-testers use that gave
them success? Is there a way I can copy that?
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Best Wishes
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David G8XBZ
From:
QRPLabs@... [mailto:QRPLabs@...] On Behalf Of
Keith Maton
Sent: 26 May 2013 10:39
To:
QRPLabs@...
Subject: Re: [QRPLabs] GPS behaviour very
inconsistent
I
have one further update regarding the initial time setting from the GPS using
the Adafruit.
If it's all powered off and I start the GPS and the U2 at the same time,
the U2 will give a slightly incorrect time depending on how long it takes the
GPS to lock.
So if the GPS takes six seconds to find a lock the time displayed by the U2
will be six seconds slow.
Simply inverting and re-inverting the GPS settings cause that error to be
corrected.
I hope this is helpful.
73 Keith, G6NHU
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