Thursday, February 10, 2011

Finalized GPS Receiver and Antenna

Today, I finally picked the GPA module and antenna to use for our BSF (Bomb Sniffing Robot). Here are our previous considerations, the highlighted (Venus GPS with SMA connector - http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9133) one is the final GPS module picked.



As for the antenna, we are going to use the Antenna GPS Embedded SMA - http://www.sparkfun.com/products/177.


The VTourch antenna has the following specifications/features: 
  • Gain 26dB
  • VSWR <2.0
  • Voltage 3.3V +/- 0.5V
  • Current 12mA
  • Weight 18g


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