[OZAPRS] U-blox GPS

[Norm McMillan]

Carlos, Mark
Thanks for the info. enough to keep me busy during lockdown. I'm a
"hi-risk" and haven't been out of the house/yard for 4 weeks now. 🙁. just
a little stir crazy. I've hooked the old GPS-12 to an "always on" supply so
at least it doesn't take 10 minutes to initialize now. small victory.
Theres a lot of time/money invested in the installation so a quick fix is a
good fix!
Carlos, I looked at the DB9 connector and wondered!
Mark, I've got friends in UK and a small stash of Scottish Pounds... That
may be the answer!

Thanks again guys

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 8:44 AM Mark Jessop <lenniethelemming at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The newer uBlox USB GPS I have units talk direct USB from a uBlox chipset,
> which is a QFN device. You can tell which ones these are by the fact they
> appear as an 'ACM serial' device under linux (.e.g /tty/devACM0)
>
> There is probably a UART available somewhere on the QFN chip, but it would
> be a lot of work to wire it up.
>
> 73
> Mark VK5QI
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 8:11 AM Carlos PECO BERROCAL <
> carlos.peco at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My "USB" GPS receivers had an inline serial to USB converter, it was not
>> hard to crack-open it and then get to the native serial lines.
>>
>> In both cases the converter had fake chips so they stopped working under
>> windows 10.
>>
>> 73,
>> Carlos VK1EA
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, April 21, 2020, Andrew Elwell <andrew.elwell at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon., 20 Apr. 2020, 09:50 Norm McMillan, <vk3xci at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Before I reinvent the wheel (Or try to!) has anyone successfully
>>>> converted a U-blox  USB GPS stick for serial use?
>>>>
>>>
>>> If you don't want to do a bunch of surface mount soldering, hab supplies
>>> do a breakout board version that's trivial to hook up
>>>
>>> https://store.uputronics.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=64
>>>
>>> The GBP-AUD exchange rate may make these a bit expensive tho right now.
>>>
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