Is there somewhere I can view some screen shots of the various models? The link at PFD systems claiming "View Screen Shots" does nothing for me. Someone want...
... There have only been 3 models of the software Chad, the latest is V3 (version 3) which is the version 99.9% of folk have (including me). The screen shots...
... I just checked the compilation date for Version 3, and it is 26th November 2004. All OSD's that Vince has sold (i.e. those bought from PFD systems, USA)...
G'day Chad, ... I have uploaded some pictures to the photos section of kiwosd, showing NGC4755 aka The Jewel Box taken with my PC164 in my 10inch newt, focal...
Thanks. I was wondering if the display of the KIWI-OSD would eat up a significant portion of the screen. That's what I meant when referring to FOV. Now a...
G'day Everyone, ... I have one of the ancient pre PCB and pre Garmin KIWI OSDs and it's still running fine. For fun, I have uploaded some pics to the photos...
Hi Chad, ... There is a single button on KIWI OSD that does different things depending on what "mode" the OSD is in. If you press the button in the 30 second...
Dear Geoff, When I run the Kiwi OSD for long period (say over an hour). It sometime display all the time information with xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx. I need to ...
... One user could only run his KIWI OSD for a few minutes before the X's were overlayed onto the HH:MM:SS display! Like bathroom scales that might say we...
The Kiwi OSD I brought is the Model 2 (Cable free) from PFD Systems 10 months ago. GPS is Garmin 18 LVC ordered together with the Kiwi OSD. I use stand alone...
... Thankyou for explaining your "power" setup. Is it possible for you to connect up the "minimum" amount of equipment to make the timing system work? In other...
Thanks Geoff, I'll try what you said and see I can find out where the noise come from. Regards, WC Yue ... Systems ... KIWI ... a "mains" ... conditioner ... ...
Hi all, I am happy to say that I have not had a single glitch in my KIWI system after an accumulative total of over 100 hours of use in the field or at home. ...
... Many thanks for sharing your knowledge about power filtering and EMI issues Tom. I think the "power" issue is the one remaining issue with respects to GPS...
I have some additional information on this glitch problem, although it is very anecdotal: I have seen glitches (XXX... display) in only one circumstance--the ...
... Thanks for your nice description Steve, your scenario is how I hope most folk will deal with the issue. When they get the X's on the screen, use logic to...
Thanks Geoff, a good explaination. As I stated in an IOTA thread, I got the XX's while trying to time the Palma event. I attributed it to the static i was...
I have a question for Geoff or anyone else. Can one GPS unit support multiple OSDs? Assuming the OSDs are initialized and query the GPS one at a time. What...
Hi All, I have written up a page explaining about GPS Datums. http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~geoff36/datum.htm If anyone spots an error, please let me know,...
Geoff, Looks great to me. Good job! One thing that might be helpful to the other IOTA members is some data on the way the Garmin 16 and Garmin 18 output...
Dear Geoff, Is there any software that I can use with KIWI OSD to take the average value of GPS height (also long / lat) over a period of time during ...
... In the FILES section of this KIWI OSD egroup http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/kiwiosd/files/ - there is some software I wrote back in 2005 that will...
... The reason I didn't talk about different GPS units Tony, is the horizontal datum, can be set to one of a hundred different "regional" values (which can...
Thanks Geoff, I have a Garmin differential beacon receiver unit (GBR23), if I use it with KIWI OSD, will I able to get better position accuracy under ...
... Assuming you have the ~300kHz differential corrections available in Hong Kong, then YES the GBR23 may give some slight improvement in Lat/Lon/Hgt if you...
Thanks Geoff, The GBR23 differential bascon receiver cannot operate as a stand alone unit. It only receive differenital correction signal (at 289 kHz, 200 bps...
Hello Mr Yue I can see I did not understand what you were wanting to achieve in my Msg #568. Now I think I understand ;-) ... Because the precision of the 1PPS...
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