[Fwd: [TowerTalk] GPS receivers]

[Steve]

I appreciate the helpful replies to my inquiry regarding GPS receivers, 
some to the reflector and others directly to me.

Perhaps I should have been more specific regarding what I hope to 
accomplish with the GPS receiver. In the next few years I hope to move 
out of the city to a more rural area where I will have enough property 
for antennas. From time to time I visit a piece of property in which I 
have enough interest to do some further analysis with HFTA. Having a GPS 
receiver in my pocket to capture the lat/long of the potential tower 
site would be quite helpful as well as eliminate a potential source of 
error that could be introduced in finding the site on a map. A few of 
you suggested that the most basic GPS receivers would meet this need, 
that seems to put the cost in the hundred dollar range.

Several directed me to a web site, http://gpsinformation.net, which has 
helped me up the learning curve a good bit.

Thanks everyone!

Steve

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [TowerTalk] GPS receivers
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 22:50:40 -0400
From: Steve <steveac at charter.net>
To: TowerTalk <towertalk at contesting.com>

I've been playing around with the HFTA software that comes with the
current edition of the Antenna Handbook. The Help recommends use of a
GPS receiver to determine lat/long for the site under analysis.

Anyone have recommendations as to what type, brand or model of GPS I
should buy? Any particular GPS receiver features that are must have
versus nice but not essential? As far as I know at this point, the only
thing I want to do with the GPS receiver is determine lat/long
coordinates for HFTA analysis.

Thanks.

Steve

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