Thread: Theory about why GPS performs poorly
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jussik is offline jussik
2008-02-07 , 09:21
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Originally Posted by ag2 View Post
Almanac ($GPALM) is not exported via NMEA by gpsdriver
Yep.

Originally Posted by ag2 View Post
Again, I believe that almanac data is not used by the chip at all. This is the only explanation for 3 minute cold starts I can think of.
This is quite possible. Knowing the approximate amount of bytes this data takes would probably tell a lot...