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GPS Expansion Board for Onion Omega
The GPS Expansion Board for the Onion Omega is a USB-based expansion that allows your Omega to pinpoint its location using both GPS and China’s BeiDou satellite positioning systems. The GPS Expansion also comes with an onboard GPS antenna, as well as a built-in U.FL connector to attach your own antenna.
Each of these expansion boards provides up to 1.8m accuracy, 66 search channels, 22 tracking channels and -165dBm sensitivity with a 10Hz update rate.
The Onion Omega boards we carry are separated into three different categories: Mainboard, Dock and Expansion Board. Although this board falls into the Expansion Board category, it is not equipped with a 30-pin Expansion Header, so you will still need a dock with a USB Host like the Mini Dock, Expansion Dock or Arduino Dock R2.
- Accuracy: 1.8m
- Search channels: 66
- Tracking channels: 22
- Sensitivity: -165dBm
- Update rate: 10Hz
GPS Expansion Board for Onion Omega Product Help and Resources
Three Quick Tips About Using U.FL
December 28, 2018
Quick tips regarding how to connect, protect, and disconnect U.FL connectors.
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Can the GPS antenna be removed from the circuit board so that it can be mounted elsewhere?
No, it's soldered to the board, but you could plug in a different antenna if you wanted too.
This is probably a silly question but would this work on a regular PC with a Linux based OS?
I believe I tested it on a Raspberry Pi and it worked as well.
Yes! In fact it works on my Windows 7 PC. You might need a driver for Linux, but Windows found and installed the driver for me automatically.