Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Query on GPS

[Eric Blossom]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 09:21:08AM -0500, David Bengtson wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I'm still working on this slowly. I've selected the Maxim 2745 as the 
> best part available that is reasonably accessible. I've ordered and 
> received samples of the part from Maxim, and am starting to work on a 
> block diagram, followed by a schematic. This is looking like a RX module 
> to plug into the USRP board, and feed data into the FPGA for down 
> sampling and filtering.
> 
> Question for folks on the mailing list. I'm a hardware engineer, and am 
> more adept in programming in Matlab and solder than Python. Are there 
> enough folks out there that would be interested in helping with the 
> software to make this feasible, as I'm certainly not the guy to write 
> the code. I do feel competent to do the block diagram for the software, 
> although Krys is probably more up to speed on that. My guess is that we 
> would need ~ 2 to 3 folks writing code to demodulate the GPS signal and 
> turn it into a location. We can talk about generating hardware, as it 
> looks like the GPS board by itself will be pretty cheap, although costs 
> will have to wait until I have  BOM
> 
> 
> Dave

I'll make sure (probably with some help from Matt) that we get the
daughterboard glued into the GNU Radio framework.

Between Krys, Bob and others, I'm sure we've got plenty of folks
willing to work on the actual GPS signal processing.

If you build it, they will come ;-)

Eric