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From: Kalle Kärkkäinen
Subject: Re: GPS
Date: Monday, July 14, 2008 - 1:45 am

thomasg kirjoitti:

In my past life I developed a fleet management device that had GPS and 
GSM in it, able to send the fix data to server in intervals. we even 
implemented some location alerts (around the vicinity of, or near 
customer..).

Based on that experience, we used on of falcoms devices for it, it most 
probably did not have much of a cache for gps data (black box, tough to 
tell), but it needed a strong antenna for gps. For a GSM antenna you 
could use a hairpin, anything that had 10-15 cm of length was totally 
enough for good quality gsm connection. GPS required much more, in our 
case we supplied all the devices with external antennas.

My knowledge is based solely on this work experience, I'm no radio-geek 
so I cant really tell much about antennas and signal catching. What kind 
of GPS-antenna is there in FR? Embedded for sure, but could that be the 
problem?

I guess your TomTom comes with an external windshield antenna?

--
Kalle.

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GPS, Yorick Matthys, (Mon Jun 23, 9:32 am)
Re: GPS, Joseph Reeves, (Mon Jun 23, 10:21 am)
Re: GPS, Peter Kraker, (Mon Jun 23, 2:15 pm)
Re: GPS, Kai Römer, (Fri Jul 4, 7:32 am)
Re: GPS, Al Johnson, (Sun Jul 6, 9:12 am)
Re: GPS, Kai Römer, (Mon Jul 7, 12:40 am)
Re: GPS, Kevin Zuber, (Mon Jul 7, 3:07 am)
Re: GPS, Al Johnson, (Mon Jul 7, 3:26 am)
Re: GPS, Al Johnson, (Mon Jul 7, 3:34 am)
Re: GPS, Kai Römer, (Mon Jul 7, 4:39 am)
Re: GPS, Federico Lorenzi, (Mon Jul 7, 5:06 am)
Re: GPS, Al Johnson, (Mon Jul 7, 7:37 am)
Re: GPS, Mathias Ballner, (Mon Jul 7, 9:24 am)
Re: GPS, Marcus Bauer, (Mon Jul 7, 10:04 am)
Re: GPS, Yogiz, (Mon Jul 7, 10:56 am)
Re: GPS, Francesco Cat, (Mon Jul 7, 11:47 am)
Re: GPS, Chris, (Mon Jul 7, 1:33 pm)
Re: GPS, Al Johnson, (Mon Jul 7, 2:40 pm)
Re: GPS, thomasg, (Mon Jul 7, 2:47 pm)
Re: GPS, Joerg Reisenweber, (Mon Jul 7, 4:35 pm)
Re: GPS, W.Kenworthy, (Mon Jul 7, 6:25 pm)
Re: GPS, W.Kenworthy, (Mon Jul 7, 7:02 pm)
Re: GPS, Francesco Cat, (Mon Jul 7, 11:50 pm)
Re: GPS, AVee, (Tue Jul 8, 2:11 am)
Re: GPS, Al Johnson, (Tue Jul 8, 2:37 am)
Re: GPS, Tilman Baumann, (Tue Jul 8, 3:05 am)
Re: GPS, flexd, (Tue Jul 8, 4:09 am)
Re: GPS, Neng-Yu Tu (Tony Tu), (Tue Jul 8, 4:17 am)
Re: GPS, Jay Vaughan, (Tue Jul 8, 4:19 am)
Re: GPS, flexd, (Tue Jul 8, 4:24 am)
Re: GPS, flexd, (Tue Jul 8, 4:36 am)
Re: GPS, Neng-Yu Tu (Tony Tu), (Tue Jul 8, 4:42 am)
Re: GPS, Marcus Bauer, (Tue Jul 8, 4:42 am)
Re: GPS, AVee, (Tue Jul 8, 4:42 am)
Re: GPS, matt joyce, (Tue Jul 8, 4:52 am)
Re: GPS, Al Johnson, (Tue Jul 8, 10:31 am)
Re: GPS, Chris, (Tue Jul 8, 10:58 am)
RE: GPS, steve, (Tue Jul 8, 12:57 pm)
Re: GPS, Chaosspawn23, (Tue Jul 8, 11:11 pm)
German getting started, simarillion, (Tue Jul 8, 11:56 pm)
Re: GPS, Jeffrey Ratcliffe, (Wed Jul 9, 10:57 pm)
Re: GPS, Thomas Gstädtner, (Thu Jul 10, 1:19 am)
Re: GPS, Alexander Paersch, (Fri Jul 11, 4:36 am)
Re: GPS, Jeffrey Ratcliffe, (Fri Jul 11, 4:50 am)
Re: GPS, Alexey Feldgendler, (Fri Jul 11, 5:07 am)
Re: GPS, Torfinn Ingolfsen, (Fri Jul 11, 6:02 am)
Re: GPS, Ole Kliemann, (Fri Jul 11, 10:57 am)
Re: GPS, Tobias Diedrich, (Fri Jul 11, 11:56 am)
Re: GPS, Russell Sears, (Fri Jul 11, 2:34 pm)
Re: GPS, Bumbl, (Fri Jul 11, 2:57 pm)
Re: GPS, andres, (Fri Jul 11, 3:43 pm)
Re: GPS, Russell Sears, (Fri Jul 11, 4:00 pm)
Re: GPS, Russell Sears, (Fri Jul 11, 10:56 pm)
Re: GPS, Jonathan Spooner, (Sat Jul 12, 2:25 am)
Re: GPS, William Kenworthy, (Sat Jul 12, 5:11 am)
Re: GPS, Al Johnson, (Sat Jul 12, 5:49 am)
Re: GPS, Ole Kliemann, (Sat Jul 12, 7:27 am)
Re: GPS, Jim Morris, (Sat Jul 12, 1:59 pm)
Re: GPS, Yorick Moko, (Sun Jul 13, 2:50 am)
Re: GPS, Russell Sears, (Sun Jul 13, 3:48 am)
Re: GPS, Mikko Rauhala, (Sun Jul 13, 4:05 am)
Re: GPS, Ole Kliemann, (Sun Jul 13, 6:00 am)
Re: GPS, arne anka, (Sun Jul 13, 6:39 am)
Re: GPS, BlueStar88, (Sun Jul 13, 10:14 am)
Re: GPS, Joerg Reisenweber, (Sun Jul 13, 10:21 am)
Re: GPS, Russell Sears, (Sun Jul 13, 3:36 pm)
Re: GPS, Timo Jyrinki, (Mon Jul 14, 1:18 am)
Re: GPS, thomasg, (Mon Jul 14, 1:34 am)
Re: GPS, Kalle Kärkkäinen, (Mon Jul 14, 1:45 am)
Re: GPS, Kai Römer, (Mon Jul 14, 2:08 am)
Re: GPS, BlueStar88, (Mon Jul 14, 4:22 am)
Re: GPS, Al Johnson, (Mon Jul 14, 5:41 am)
Re: GPS, thomasg, (Mon Jul 14, 6:05 am)
Re: GPS, Yorick Moko, (Mon Jul 14, 6:39 am)
Re: GPS, Timo Jyrinki, (Mon Jul 14, 6:49 am)
Re: GPS, Jay Vaughan, (Mon Jul 14, 7:23 am)
Re: GPS, thomasg, (Mon Jul 14, 9:20 am)
Re: GPS, C R McClenaghan, (Mon Jul 14, 9:26 am)
Re: GPS, arne anka, (Mon Jul 14, 9:42 am)
Re: GPS, Al Johnson, (Mon Jul 14, 10:06 am)
Re: GPS, thomasg, (Mon Jul 14, 10:06 am)
Re: GPS, C R McClenaghan, (Mon Jul 14, 10:46 am)
Re: GPS, arne anka, (Mon Jul 14, 10:54 am)
Re: GPS, C R McClenaghan, (Mon Jul 14, 11:26 am)