Go Global (for Less!) with SparkFun's New Budget-Friendly GNSS
The new NEO-F10N GNSS L1/L5 Breakout is an incredibly economical global positioning board now available for everyone!
Hello everyone and welcome back to another Friday Product Post here at SparkFun Electronics! This week we have a brand new GNSS Breakout to present to you that utilizes u-blox's NEO-F10N module. This GNSS module uses dual-band GNSS technology using L1 and L5 band signals and provides you with our most economical PNT option to date! Without further ado, let's take a closer look at our newest board!
Accuracy at a fraction of the cost!
The SparkFun GNSS L1/L5 Breakout - NEO-F10N, SMA is a standard precision GNSS board with meter-level positional accuracy. The NEO-F10N uses the L1/L5 bands instead of the more commonly seen L1/L2 bands. Utilizing the L5 band, the NEO-F10N delivers improved performance under challenging urban environments. The L5 signals fall within the protected ARNS (aeronautical radio navigation service) frequency band, leading to less RF interference.
This breakout supports the concurrent reception of three GNSS constellations: GPS, Galileo, and BeiDou. The proprietary dual-band multipath mitigation technology from the u-blox F10 allows the module to choose the best signals from both bands to achieve a significantly better position accuracy in challenging urban environments than with the L1 band alone.
That's it for this week. As always, we can't wait to see what you make! Shoot us a tweet @sparkfun, or let us know on Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn. Please be safe out there, be kind to one another! We'll be back with more new products next week so make sure to check back then. Happy hacking!
