Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25520 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2002 07:50:17 -0000 Received: from warrior.services.quay.plus.net (212.159.14.227) by mailstore with SMTP; 19 Oct 2002 07:50:17 -0000 X-Priority: 3 Received: (qmail 12104 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2002 07:49:41 -0000 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from post.thorcom.com (193.82.116.70) by warrior.services.quay.plus.net with SMTP; 19 Oct 2002 07:49:41 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.10) id 182oLc-0001GK-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 08:48:36 +0100 Received: from [144.254.98.48] (helo=cisco.com) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 182oLb-0001G7-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 08:48:35 +0100 Received: from virgin.net (ams-clip-vpn-dhcp4179.cisco.com [10.50.16.82]) by cisco.com (8.8.8/2.6/Cisco List Logging/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA15131 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 08:48:04 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3DB10E30.2000403@virgin.net> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 08:48:00 +0100 From: "Stewart Bryant" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org References: Subject: Re: LF: GPS modules - BG Micro Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0tests=QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT, USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA,X_ACCEPT_LANGversion=2.42 Sender: Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group John Don't do it that way. The professional unit that I have, puts this function at the top of the mast and brings the output down the feeder. There is a good design for a passive antenna in this months QST. Stewart G3YSX John W Gould wrote: > Further to Andy, G4JNT's talk at the LF Forum (RSGB HF COnvention) last > weekend, and his article in RadCom, Frank, K0BRA, mentioned a cheap source > of surplus Motorola ACS1397 8 Channel GPS modules from BG Micros > (http://www.bgmicro.com). > > Anyone wanting to build a GPS locked frequency source may be interested to > know that the modules are advertised at $US14.95 and arrived here in the UK > three days after ordering over the Internet. The only snag now is to get an > active aerial, or some work-around - presumably a circularly polarised > aerial with a MAT device - and an OSX connector. Grateful for helpful > suggestions on the latter. > > 73 John, G3WKL > > >