PCMCIA Card GPS recommendations?

DarthDemo · 05-20-2004

Can anyone recommend a good PCMCIA card GPS? I need one that can work with NetStumbler 0.4.0 and fit next to an Orinoco Gold card in a laptop.

Anyone try the "no name" ones being sold on eBay?

lincomatic · 05-20-2004

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Originally Posted by DarthDemo

Can anyone recommend a good PCMCIA card GPS? I need one that can work with NetStumbler 0.4.0 and fit next to an Orinoco Gold card in a laptop.

Anyone try the "no name" ones being sold on eBay?

do you mean CF? i've never seen a PCMCIA gps.
all the ones i've seen have a big bump for the antenna and wouldn't work stacked w/ an orinoco. besides, even if you could fit it the antennas would interfere w/ each other. one would always be blocking the other. why not use a USB or serial gps instead.

Barry · 05-20-2004

AFAIK you have to get one that has an external antenna. The ones that have one integrated won't fit with an Orinoco card. The antenna buldges get in the way of each other.

wrzwaldo · 05-20-2004

I have played with one of these a bit. But I don't remember much about it.

DarthDemo · 05-20-2004

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Originally Posted by Barry

AFAIK you have to get one that has an external antenna. The ones that have one integrated won't fit with an Orinoco card. The antenna buldges get in the way of each other.

That's exactly what I thought when I looked at the various Type II PC Card GPSes. I have looked for some type of PC Card extension, but that'd defeat the reason to have a PCMCIA GPS in the first place.

Thanks.

DarthDemo · 05-20-2004

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Originally Posted by wrzwaldo

I have played with one of these a bit. But I don't remember much about it.

Yeah, with those bulky integrated antennas they are fine for a PDA, but not for a laptop already using a Type II card. A GPS card with an external antenna connection is what I seek--and a GPS antenna with a magnetic mount.

maverick929 · 05-20-2004

i remember coming across one that had a connector for an external antenna, and thus no bulge (at least as i remember)

let me find link........

maverick929 · 05-20-2004

here's what i was talking about

doesnt look super reliable, but seems to have no bulge, as far as i can tell from the crappy photo....

lincomatic · 05-20-2004

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Originally Posted by maverick929

here's what i was talking about

doesnt look super reliable, but seems to have no bulge, as far as i can tell from the crappy photo....

hmm. that's the first true PC Card format gps i've seen.. most are CF and come w/ a PCMCIA->CF adapter. they claim it uses "latest low power GPS technology from Garmin"

just a warning...all of the CF gps's i've tried (at 7 different models) had lower performance than external units, even with an external antenna connected. I think it's probably due to the higher RF interference it gets from being inside the computer.

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wrzwaldo I amuse you? Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 9,147	I have played with one of these a bit. But I don't remember much about it.

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maverick929 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 45	i remember coming across one that had a connector for an external antenna, and thus no bulge (at least as i remember) let me find link........

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maverick929 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 45	here's what i was talking about doesnt look super reliable, but seems to have no bulge, as far as i can tell from the crappy photo....