Common GPS knowledge

General speaking, we need 1 channel per GPS satellite. There are only 30 satellites in the system & why we need so many channels in the GPS re...

GPS has longer battery runtime under optimum environment. For those non optimum environments, (For example. when keep trying a position fix, seekin...

Suggestion: Use the GPS diagnostic application (e.g. GPSviewer, GPSinfo) to system reset/cold start the GPS. It will reset the GPS registers.

The greater the number of satellites you GPS can “see”,  the more accurate it will determine your position. The number of satellites that your GPS ...

A GPS receiver simply measures the travel time of the signals transmitted from the satellites, then multiplies them by the speed of light to determ...

NMEANMEA is a specification published by the National Marine Electronics Association that covers marine related devicesincluding GPS receivers. Th...