Hello Stefan
I have ordered one with the small breakout board and the lead, plus an
antenna cable, a lot derer than some of the basic units but at least
it's from a known source and has all the bells and whistles. Thanks
for the link.
Wednesday, December 19, 2018, 3:01:34 PM, you wrote:
> Chris,
> See this older email from Paul.
> 73, Stefan
> Am 10.02.2018 21:33, schrieb Paul Nicholson:
>>
>> I've just started experimenting with a couple of NEO-M8T
>> boards. It's the first time I've used the M8T. It's designed
>> particularly for timing applications.
>>
>> It appears immediately impressive compared to the already good
>> NEO-7 series. It's picking up a lot more satellites from
>> the poor antenna location on the window ledge. It computes
>> a fix and time using GPS, GLONASS and Galileo networks!
>>
>> Just hooked one up to a Pi and stereo audioinjector card and
>> it's giving 21nS PPS jitter just with a breadboarded PPS
>> shaper on the bench.
>>
>> It has a mode of operation, which I've yet to try, where
>> it fixes its position and then concentrates on getting
>> accurate timing pulses. I'm looking forward to firing that up,
>> on a good GPS antenna.
>>
>> It also has two independently programmable timepulse ouputs,
>> which I need for my LF receiver - a 2mS PPS pulse to time the
>> Octo sample rate, and a 103kHz local oscillator.
>>
>> Rather more expensive than the other u-blox GPS modules but it
>> looks worth it.
>>
>> My source is CSG shop, located in Latvia. I've had two
>> deliveries so far from them with no problem. Shipment can
>> take a while, took nearly a month for the first order but the
>> second was less than 10 days. Tracking showed the first spent
>> a lot of time in Latvia post and then about a week in a
>> depot at Heathrow airport!
>>
>> I bought two models:
>>
>> First,
>>
>> http://www.csgshop.com/product.php?id_product=218
>>
>> which also needs
>>
>> http://www.csgshop.com/product.php?id_product=216
>> http://www.csgshop.com/product.php?id_product=217
>>
>> plus a pigtail for the microscopic U.FL antenna connector, eg
>>
>> https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01LPXGJ2I/
>>
>> The other board is
>>
>> http://www.csgshop.com/product.php?id_product=240
>>
>> which also needs a little breakout board
>>
>> http://www.csgshop.com/product.php?id_product=239
>>
>> There is a third M8T board, product code 205 but this doesn't
>> appear to have the 2nd timepulse brought out.
>>
>> So far I'm well impressed. Exchanged some emails with Aleks
>> Ivanovs who runs the shop. Helpful, and he'll do custom boards
>> to whatever our requirements might be. Worth a look at all
>> the other gadgets he supplies.
>>
>> The only other source I've found for M8T boards is u-blox
>> themselves with their very expensive evaluation board.
>>
>> --
>> Paul Nicholson
>> --
>>
>>
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Best regards,
Chris mailto:[email protected]
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