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I'm not really an expert (corrections welcome!) but having spent some time recently playing with positioning systems: Most of GPS's perceived suck (in cold boo
by livueta 5y ago
I'm not really an expert (corrections welcome!) but having spent some time recently playing with positioning systems:
Most of GPS's perceived suck (in cold boot (TTFF) time, general receptivity) is actually just bad antennas/chips. I bet this thing has a large, possibly active, antenna and a modern, possibly multi-service, gnss module.
As an example, I have some very cheap ~10mm passive antennas that never pull a signal indoors, and some very cheap modules that take >20 minutes to TTFF even with a clear view of the sky. I also have some big chonker 30mms that, with a modern module, have a <2min TTFF inside/in a car/whatever.
- SAI_Peregrinus 5y agoThe antenna in the picture looks a lot like a Taoglas L1 active patch antenna. So an antenna (possibly several, hard to tell if it's a stacked-patch or not), low-noise amplifier, and possibly a Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) filter.