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Holes in GPS
Is it me only or most common? Recently my logs comes with up to 30 minutes holes.GPS GW 60

30 Nov



26 November
apparently another sailor , same place, same time experienced even worse reading

What do cause the problem? Are we preparing for WWIII or UFO just landed near by recently?
Luckily we are not yet at the stage of self sailing autonomously windsurfing boards. Could crash for sure or make a good dip towards New Zealand with such navigation.
third sailor at same place

then Brisbane 60 km away affected too

But suprasingly Lake Cootharaba ( 300km ) wasn't yet invaded by Aliens !? or just single hit at 3pm exactly

Yep, story becomes more and more fascinating. The most probable explanation is that Earht was hit by wormhole ( Time shifting device/phenomenon) that cause Y2K problem appear suddenly after 20 years past.


www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-10/weather-balloons-grounded-in-gps-clock-rollover-glitch/10984806






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Diy Gps V2a
A few weeks ago I went to grab my helmet out of the wagon, to load it up with GPSs.
But it wasn't there!
It still hasn't turned up, so I've taken the opportunity to simplify things.
I'm no longer testing devices, so I don't need to be able to carry two devices on my head.
And it would be good to have the device on my head with plenty of battery life, V3 is relatively power hungry, so I'm going with V2.
My aim is to shrink it, to make the thing on my head more aerodynamic. So I've removed the serial to usb converter, because I no longer need to play with the UBX configuration, that's also meant the removal of the change over switches. also gone is the old 800mAh round battery, that's been replaced with an 1100mAh flat battery, bigger but as it's flat, allows a lower profile device.
All I have now is the M8N, Spark Fun openlog, battery charger and protector, on/off switch and of course the battery.



So this is fairly simple and works well at 5hz, 10hz sees quite a lot of missed points.
And as you see I managed to finally find a fairly good schematic CAD, but this is my first attempt with it, so still a bit rough, only complaint so far I can't find an earth symbol.

I'm now in the process of making a curved enclosure for it to fit on the helmet, pictures when I make a bit more progress.
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DIY V2a circuit

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