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Mark Sims
Tue, Apr 4, 2017 3:20 PM

Lady Heather can work with the Jupiter receivers in either NMEA or Zodiac (binary) mode.  Heather checks time stamps for consistency and flags any that are out of sequence.  I usually run it in binary mode.  It's been a while since I ran mine, but I don't remember ever seeing any skips.  The Jupiter receivers do have the odd "feature" of having the time stamps off by a second.

I have seen several early GPS receivers that do have issues with generating consecutive time stamps.  It is caused by the receiver processor not having enough speed to always complete all the calculations within a 1 second interval.

Lady Heather can work with the Jupiter receivers in either NMEA or Zodiac (binary) mode. Heather checks time stamps for consistency and flags any that are out of sequence. I usually run it in binary mode. It's been a while since I ran mine, but I don't remember ever seeing any skips. The Jupiter receivers do have the odd "feature" of having the time stamps off by a second. I have seen several early GPS receivers that do have issues with generating consecutive time stamps. It is caused by the receiver processor not having enough speed to always complete all the calculations within a 1 second interval.
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Bo Hansen
Thu, Apr 6, 2017 7:31 AM

Hi

OK I will try out to see what Lady Heather can do for me. However, I use a MCU for reading the GPS and not all the time so perhaps I have to change this.

Björn can you remember something about the reason for the behavior?

Thanks
Bo

Hi OK I will try out to see what Lady Heather can do for me. However, I use a MCU for reading the GPS and not all the time so perhaps I have to change this. Björn can you remember something about the reason for the behavior? Thanks Bo