From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from snark.thyrsus.com (static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [71.162.243.5]) by huchra.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5B4D201A91 for ; Mon, 7 May 2012 19:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B3BC240475; Mon, 7 May 2012 22:50:09 -0400 (EDT) From: esr@thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) To: veronica Message-Id: <20120508025009.B3BC240475@snark.thyrsus.com> Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 22:50:09 -0400 (EDT) Cc: thumbgps-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net Subject: [Thumbgps-devel] GR-601W success X-BeenThere: thumbgps-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 02:50:43 -0000 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. -- Eric S. Raymond As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases. -- Edward Abbey