Garmin GPS 18x SDK question

[Kak]

Hello everybody,

I'm trying to use a Garmin 18x USB device to get the position and time
with the "SDK" they provide (well, the sample .c file...)
I've been able to retrieve time and position, however I don't know if
the satellites have been "detected" or not (therefore I don't know if
the measure is accurate). Is there any way to do that (no matter if
it's an undocummented feature)

TIA!
Kak

[mo...@hotmail.com]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 02:33:53 -0700 (PDT), Kak <jord...@gmail.com>
wrote:

if the satellites were not detected, then you certainly would not get
a postion and/or time to retrieve

[Kak]

> if the satellites were not detected, then you certainly would not get
> a postion and/or time to retrieve

It seems to retrieve the last known position and uses an internal
clock.

In example, when I first started playing with the usb gps, it told me
it was in taiwan (a place which I'm not, and curiously, the device is
"made in taiwan")

[Bert Hyman]

jord...@gmail.com (Kak) wrote in
news:08aa8408-1b80-46a2...@v28g2000hsv.googlegroups.com:

I downloaded the SDK a while ago just to look at it and have never
actually used it, but ...

The "D800_Pvt_Data_Type" structure which contains altitude, latitude,
longitude and time also includes a field called "fix", which has
values ranging from "unusable" through "3D_diff" which might be what
you're looking for.

--
Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | be...@iphouse.com

[Kak]

On Oct 3, 3:14 pm, Bert Hyman <b...@iphouse.com> wrote:
> The "D800_Pvt_Data_Type" structure which contains altitude, latitude,
> longitude and time also includes a field called "fix", which has
> values ranging from "unusable" through "3D_diff" which might be what
> you're looking for.

Hi Bert,

it works flawlessly! Lots of thanks! :)
Kak