@Dbldutch
I read your entire blog. Thanks.
I have a question about the GPS modules. You talked about the M8T (expensive) and less cost M7N and Neo 6M modules.
Once you finally found a good view of the sky, had enough satellites, and saved coordinates in the EEPROM, did you still find the
need for the expensive M8T, or did you find adequate operation/accuracy using the Neo 7N or M?
(I should qualify that I am not looking for perfection, just reasonable accuracy for the average radio and test equipment hobbyist.
Also, I do have a proper outdoor GPS antenna mounted in a 360 degree clear-sky view. My GPS disciplined dual-timezone wall clock
project always shows 12 sats with it's NEO 6 module)
Second question - You mentioned in your blog's GPS section;
"One other mistake I made was that I didn't save all the settings into the NEO EEPROM and so I lost them after a power cycle. Because I no longer monitored the NEO output, I was unaware of this."
Where do I read to learn more about how to do the above, how to store things in the EEPROM? Is there a forum post, or is that from
some other web site or article or user manual? Would it perhaps be the u-center program at the Ublox site?
And is it just the local coordinates that you store so after a power cycle it can lock faster? Or do you make other settings such
as modes, etc?
Thanks again for getting me started. I have some GPS modules already, and also ordered some of the other parts today.
Cheers,
Neal