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Development => Hardware => Topic started by: zukenj on January 23, 2016, 03:41:00 pm

Title: GC330 GPS Board
Post by: zukenj on January 23, 2016, 03:41:00 pm

Hello all,
I am new to the forum and the hobby.
I have a GC330 board and i was wandering if it is posible to conect it to the Revolution board. I don't know the pin out. Attached pictures of the board. Please forgive me if this has been ask before.

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Title: Re: GC330 GPS Board
Post by: TheOtherCliff on February 21, 2016, 10:13:24 pm

I can't find any info on it.  We support GPS protocols NMEA(outdated), UBX(preferred), and DJI(in next release).  If it does one of these it can possibly be made to work.

Title: Re: GC330 GPS Board
Post by: zukenj on February 21, 2016, 10:18:40 pm

Quote from: TheOtherCliff on February 21, 2016, 10:13:24 pm

I can't find any info on it.  We support GPS protocols NMEA(outdated), UBX(preferred), and DJI(in next release).  If it does one of these it can possibly be made to work.

The gps is from an old Magellan 1200

Title: Re: GC330 GPS Board
Post by: Zim_256 on February 12, 2017, 08:28:24 am

Super late reply but to clarify, that board just has a GPS antenna and receiver, it has no NMEA output, just raw digital radio data.

The pinout is as follows:

VCC
GND
RX_EN
Clock
SIGN
MAG

To be able to make any use of the GPS signal out of that receiver, you need to connect it to a baseband radio processor. In the Magellan, it's the SiRF Atlas III residing on the middle of the main PNA board.
So that board, as it is, is no useful outside of the original GPS device.