[rescue] cheap gps for time reference

Scott Newell newell at cei.net
Fri Jul 5 14:09:24 CDT 2002


>  Close...the Z3801A.  HiTech Cafe has about 1500 of them at $299. (!).

No way!  What an odd place for 'em to end up.  Now if they'd knock it down
to $100...


>  See http://www.realhamradio.com/GPS_Frequency_Standard.htm for lots of

Ahh, yes, been there before.  The active GPS antenna pointer is interesting
too.  (I didn't realize that there were cheap antennas when I saw these
units months ago.)


>  They seem to have SprintPCS property stickers on them.  I guess the
>suits at Sprint have found something else to stabilize the oscillators
>at the towers.

I'll ask and see what they're going to.  Probably just something newer.


newell



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