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["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Friday 2007-03-16 at 19:15 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:

> The GPS downloads the Zulu time with every transmission.
> The only delay would be decoding the actual transmission.
> 
> You need some hardware and software that will parse the
> transmission and extract the time and date (if you need it)
> and this probably exists somewhere--even for DOS, I would 
> guess.  The software is trivial, and I could probably write
> it myself, but I'm not volunteering to do so.  (I'm not a
> programmer.)  

I'm told that it is terrible easy. Some gps units (modules) output a plain 
ascii "message" containing time and position trough a serial port: so 
simple that a PIC can decode it. 

Haven't got one to try myself, though.

Elektor magazine wrote a pic design using a gps module used as a radar or 
dangerous spot warning device for motorists not long ago.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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