Article: 797 of rec.aviation.products Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.aviation.products Path: newshost.ncd.com!ncd.com!olivea!charnel!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!mcsun!sunic!news.funet.fi!butler.cc.tut.fi!news.cs.tut.fi!news.cs.tut.fi!tm From: tm@koppelo.cs.tut.fi (M{nnist| Tatu) Subject: Re: Sources for GPS modules and LCD panels In-Reply-To: ramsey@netcom.com's message of Thu, 30 Sep 1993 01: 45:01 GMT Message-ID: Sender: usenet@news.cs.tut.fi (#Kotilo NEWS system ) Nntp-Posting-Host: koppelo.cs.tut.fi Organization: Tampere University of Technology References: Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 08:44:04 GMT Lines: 102 Xref: newshost.ncd.com sci.electronics:16230 rec.aviation.products:797 > ramsey@netcom.com (Marc Ramsey) writes: 1. GPS receiver module with serial interface. Rockwell was making these a few years ago, who are the current manufacturers? Here is a list of deveces I know about: +++++++ Magellan Systems Corporation, 960 Overland Court, San Dimas, CA 91773 Tel (909) 394-5000, fax (909) 394-7050 Magellan offers two GPS receiver boards. They both are parallel five channel receivers, have horizontal accuracy of 30 meters RMS in 3D (no SA) and can accept real-time differential corrections. They have a lot of build in firmware, which gives you your position (once per sec), velocity, bearing, altitude, time, date etc as well as navigation information such as waypoints, ETA, etc. Their specifications are: GPS Brain/PS: 9 - 16 VDC power, RS-232, RS/422, NMEA compatible and TTL I/O Weight 4.8 ounces (0.136 kg), size 3.21 x 7.40 x 0.94 inches Price $445 (1-99 units), $345 (more than 100 units) GPS Brain/5V 5 VDC input power (no power supply on board), serial TTL I/O Weight 2.9 ounces (0.082 kg), size 2.9 x 4.5 x 0.5 inches Price $395 (1-99 units), $295 (more than 100 units) ++++++++ Garmin Communication & Navigation 9875 Widmer Road, Lenexa, Kansas 66215 Tel (913) 599-1515, fax (913) 599-2103 GPS 10 Sensor board set: 5 VDC, NMEA and RS-232 I/O Tracks up to 8 satellites, DGPS input 1-PPS (pulse per second) output (+- 1 us) Weight 4 ounces, size 4 x 2.65 x 0.75 inches Price $550 (one unit), $350 (2-99 units), $275 (more than 100 units) ++++++++ NovAtel Communications Ltd 1020 - 64th Avenue N.E., Calgary, Alberta T2E 7V8 Tel (403) 295-4500, fax (403) 295-5000 NovAtel sell GPSCard series which comes in many flavours. They all track 10 satellites on parallel and the Performance Series cards are able to output real time differential corrections. Their prices are from $2695 up to $8990. These cards are targetted more to surveying than navigation, IMHO. ++++++++ Rockwell sells a NavCore V receiver engine, but the minimium order is 100 units (from their Finnish dealer), $455 - $819 per unit, so... ++++++++ Furuno Electric Co, Ltd. 9-52 Ashlhara-cho, Nishinomlya City, Japan Fax 0798 (66) 4622 I just recently got this information of their GN-72 module: 5 VDC, 400 mA, RS-232 I/O, 1 pulse per second output 8-channel parallel, DGPS capable, size 100 x 70 x 22 mm. Price 40,000 (w/o antenna) Japanese Yens. +++++++++ I also have some information from JRC's CCA-81(M) and JLR-330 receivers (similar to those from Magellan and Garmin), but they seem to me quite overpriced (590 -- 655 U.K. pounds). Trimble Navigation sells SVeeSix Plus unit, which is a six channel receiver. It has RS-232, NMEA and 1PPS outputs. Price is around $400 for 1000 units and about 7000 FIM (6 FIM ~ 1 US$) in single quantities from their Finnish dealer. A good source for new GPS products is GPS Wolrd Magazine, check out your local library. 2. Monochrome LCD panel, approximately 2" x 2" and at least 200 x 200 pixels, with driver electronics. I'm looking for these too. Any info yet? BTW: I just ordered my GPS unit from Magellan for $400 (the receiver) and $110 for the active Helix antenna. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tatu Mannisto Tampere Univ. of TeXnology +358 31 434 456 home Internet: tm@cs.tut.fi +358 31 162 951 work (HB230) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------