GPS Circuits

This GPS receiver is powered by 2 AA batteries. They are only strong enough for the GPS to stay on for about two hours, and this seems like quite a waste. I would like to be able to use a larger battery, and sometimes even an AC adapter...

For the Garmin 45, GPS II, and some other Garmin units, there is a set of power & data connector/harnesses available. (Ham Radio Outlet and West Marine sell one cable only for $40, or the cable & cradle for $65, approximately.) However, the leads are long. Rather than cutting them down for our use, we recommend preparing the end according to the specification shown below, and then coiling the excess cable...

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This is a project that I started back late 2003 when I just starting to learn PIC programming. I wanted to building something that actually did somthing useful. This project is based on a PIC16F84. I actually came up with this idea and then after doing some searching I found that a few people had the same idea. But, I wanted to build my own that I could call mine, developed by me...

The µPC8211TK, µPC8215TU, and µPC8226TK are silicon germanium (SiGe) microwave monolithic integrated circuits (MMIC) designed as low noise, high-gain amplifiers for GPS and mobile communications. These ICs are manufactured using our 50 GHz fmax UHS2 (Ultra High Speed Process) SiGe bipolar process. The use of these three devices in evaluation boards implementing LNAs (Low Noise Amplifiers) at 1.575 GHz GPS is described in this document...

The GPS interface can be fed in 2 ways: with a stabilized 5V supply or with a 10 to 25V unregulated DC supply. In both cases the power is fed into the RJ45 connector on point 8. Pin 7 is DC ground. The power supply current is first secured with a slow 315mA fuse (in socket). Then there is a Transzorb device to ground. This device is a short-circuit for reverse polarity voltages and for voltages above 27V. It causes the fuse to blow and in doing so, protecting the.....

The GPS is based on 24 satellites located in six orbital planes at a height of 20 200 km and circle the Earth every 12 h. Each plane is inclined at 55 to the Earth’s equator and contains four satellites. The GPS positioning is based on oneway time-of-arrival ranging. Each satellite sends the universial time (UTC) and navigation data using a spread spectrum code division multiple access (CDMA) technique. A receiver can calculate its own position and speed by correlating.....

Antenna #2 is used as a *transmitting* antenna, and is connected to antenna #1 via coax cable. The transmitting antenna is then placed close to the GPS receiver`s own internal antenna, and the GPS signal is coupled into the GPS receiver`s antenna through the air...

Frequency accuracy has been a topic of special interest to many amateurs and experimenters since the early days of radio. Until recently, the best frequency standard available to most hams was a crystal oscillator carefully adjusted to zero-beat with a station of known frequency, such as WWV...

A strap-down inertial-navigation system uses silicon sensors to measure displacement without entailing the bulk and expense of moving parts or GPS receivers. For example, a three-axis accelerometer and three angular-rate sensors can determine the position and velocity of a vehicle such as a robot or radio-controlled aircraft...

A low cost device to temporarily disable the reception of the civilian coarse acquisition (C/A) code used for the standard positioning service (SPS) on the Global Positioning System (GPS/NAVSTAR) L1 frequency of 1575.42 MHz. This is accomplished by transmitting a narrowband Gaussian noise signal, with a deviation of +/- 1.023 MHz, on the L1 GPS frequency itself. This technique is a little more complicated than a simple continuous wave (CW) jammer, but tends to be more.....

This highly integrated GPS receiver IC improves upon earlier-generation devices by including more components in a smaller package with a reduction in power consumption...

In this project AT89S52 microcontroller is used for interfacing to various hardware peripherals. The current design is an embedded application, which will continuously monitor a moving Vehicle and report the status of the Vehicle on demand. For doing so an AT89S52 microcontroller is interfaced serially to a GSM Modem and GPS Receiver. A GSM modem is used to send the position (Latitude and Longitude) of the vehicle from a remote place. The GPS modem will continuously give.....

This is a project that I started back late 2003 when I just starting to learn PIC programming. I wanted to building something that actually did somthing useful. This project is based on a PIC16F84. I actually came up with this idea and then after doing some searching I found that a few people had the same idea. But, I wanted to build my own that I could call mine, developed by me. The whole idea is, I have several GPS units with no display and I wanted an easy way to see.....

Some Garmin GPS receivers are capable of running off external power ranging up to +32VDC or more, whereas others can only accept a maximum of +8VDC...

The circuit it`self is pretty simple, take in the data on one pin, parse it, format it and then display it to a 4x20 LCD module (Hitachi Chipset). That is the basic idea, but I might add in somthing like a mechanical encoder that would allow for changing options or changing settings in the display unit. This might be as simple as a SPDT (Singe Pole Double Throw) switch if the options are as simple as two settings...