[Thumbgps-devel] GR-601W success

[Eric S. Raymond]

Gary sent me one of the three GR-601W samples, and I now have had time to
evaluate its performance over several days.

Please tell your product team that I am *extremely* pleased with this
device.  Not only is it is delivering good 1PPS with exactly the
jitter we predicted in the design study, it functions excellently
indoors; even though I have had it on a desk five feet from a window
with a poor skyview blocked by large trees, it does not seem to have
lost satellite lock even once since it was powered up.

I like everything about this device.  The performance, the
simplicity, the small form factor - it couldn't be better for my
project's needs if I had designed it myself. :-)  Your people
did a terrific job on this and deserve congratulations.

My next step is going to be to ensure that you have a retail partner
in the U.S. You may already have been approached by Jim Thompson at
netgate; I'm also trying to find the right person to get Amazon to
carry the product.

If there is any other way in which I can assist a successful launch of
the product, please feel free to ask.  One possibility: if you have
product documentation in English other that the one data sheet I have
seen, I would be happy to review and improve it for you.
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