Anybody Heard Of Pyxis Gps Unit

[flir67]

while surfing ebay I found this neafity unit for 99.00 below is the link. I have never heard of this unit below at all. its interesting is its sd/mmc and has something I haven't heard in a while dgps. I though mostly ships use this but I wonder why they included it in such a small unit. it has the ability for a usb external antenna for dgps.

 

it seems sony might have made it at one time from a google search.

 

anybody know any thing about these units.???

 

pyxis user manual

 

 

ebay unit for sale

 

thanks in advance

Edited September 5, 2005 by flir67

[+Old Sailor]

I've seen these somewhere but it slips my mind where. DGPS is highly accurate, at least the units we use on the ship(Northstar ;and Saab for the AIS Identifyer system), accurate down to 0.5 meters, if these can get in that ball park that is really something.

[+Renegade Knight]

Looks like a garden variety low end GPS.

[robertlipe]

Let me head off the question that usually comes next in these threads. No, there isn't explicit support for these in GPSBabel.

[peter]

I agree with RK that these are nothing special. Almost all GPS receivers these days are DGPS-capable, but that just means they'll accept the data from a separate DGPS receiver and use that to get higher accuracy. Even the yellow eTrex has that feature. You'd still need to get a separate DGPS receiver and antenna to generate the RTCM104 data and it'd only be useful if you're within range of a DGPS reference station. The availability of WAAS has made regular DGPS less of an issue for most users.

[kerecsen]

It looks like a very basic SiRF II/LP based unit. What is unusual is that you can do NMEA logging to an SD card with arbitrary resolution, down to 1 s. Even high-end Garmin units don't offer anything similar.

[+Cornix]

Pyxis was the name of the first consumer GPS made by Sony back in '92:

 

 

Cornix

Edited September 6, 2005 by Cornix

[flir67]

after view their website, I'm still considering getting one off ebay for the heck of it. if you visit their website they also make a gps unit that tracks the gps satellites and the glosnoff (soviet gps system of satellites) all in one unit. its called the gg h16 unit. but after a e-mail to them its sells for 1900.00 us dollars. thats way out of my range for a dual satellite unit but nice that they make them now.

 

thanks for all the replies

 

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