Comment by Jason Willis on July 13, 2012 at 6:49pm

I'm in south Florida and got mine today.

Comment by Cliff-E on July 13, 2012 at 7:51pm

Got mine on Wed, on time... Perfect timing since I'm rebuilding my Y6 from a horrific simple mode crash (not sure why, non-simple loiter was excellent, BUT I have no logs since it's an APM1.4-1280). The crash wiped out my GPS hard that I ripped the ceramic off...

new GPS unit going in for now...

3D Robotics Comment by Chris Anderson on July 13, 2012 at 8:03pm

Cliff-E: We'll be releasing 2.6.1 early next week. It's been performing flawlessly for the team -- best ArduCopter code ever -- so you might want to wait for that before taking it up again. Among other things, it fixes the log issue that a few people had. 

Comment by Andreww78 on July 16, 2012 at 10:34am

Hi. Is it possible to use this board on linux straight through RS232 port? What about configuration?

Comment by Michael Pursifull on July 16, 2012 at 8:50pm

Yes. But you may want to explore the windows software uCenter to explore different settings and you might find their drivers page and tutorials page helpful. Of course, it will give you some messages simply by connecting via serial, depending on how it is configured, so most of the information is useful if those messages are not already in a format you want, or do not already include the data you want. We initialize the GPS with the config we want it to have each time, and ublox are highly configurable (at least my uBlox5 was, I haven't taken my uBlox6 out of the box yet, I have too many things to do before I can play with it.)

Comment by Michael Pursifull on July 16, 2012 at 8:51pm

If you get the unit as shipped by 3DR, then just connect via serial at 56k. 

Comment by Andreww78 on July 17, 2012 at 1:34am

Mike, thank you. I have few more questions. 1. Is external EEPROM used to store Ucenter configuration or it's for ArduPilot config only? 2. How to compare accuracy of this unit to Skytraq Venus 6? 3. I'll buy it from 3DR UK shop, does that mean I do not need to configure it?(I'd like to track my boat)

Comment by Jeff Milay on July 17, 2012 at 4:23am

Just got mine mounted and plugged in.  1st impressions are that this gps is rock solid.  Locks in less than a minute for me on a cold start.  Once lock is achieved, the built in battery maintains it!  Only have done loiter testing and I've noticed a more accurate loiter.  Drifting distance from loiter point is far less than the MT3329 GPS. Coincidentally I've recently noticed faster lock times (under 3 minutes cold) with my MT3329 though!!!  Still liking the new UBLOX GPS much more!  More testing to come!

Comment by Chris Holloway on July 18, 2012 at 8:22pm

Has anyone attempted to use this unit with Ardu IMU V3? This looks like an awesome unit.

Comment by Brad Pittevski on August 27, 2012 at 5:47am

the guys over at MikroKopter using u-blox lea6 too and suggesting simple a GPS shield for an even improved S/N ratio. Check it out

https://www.mikrocontroller.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&am...

What do you think? Worth a try?

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