GPS World, December 2014
LEADERSHIP AWARDS 2014 ERIC GAKSTATTER SERVICES High Precision in High Volumes From a Circuit Card in a Handheld Computer to RTK in Your Mobile Phone I have to say Im thoroughly embarrassed and deeply humbled to be up here Ive written about all of you or some of you at some time along the way or at least the work that youve done Id like to talk for a minute about history I began my GPS career back in 1990 I was a 27 year old product manager and my boss came up to me and slapped a copy of GPS World magazine on my desk and said We need to do this It was a full page advertisement by Magnavox with a six channel GPS engine which was just a circuit card We made handheld computers at that time So we decided hey lets take one of these boards and engineer it inside one of our handheld computers and make a data collector out of it for surveying and mapping I spent the next two years pretty much living at the office trying to make this happen We ended up introducing some products and several more after that A few points of interest I recall I dont know if Ron Hatch or Rich Keegan are here but I remember running down to their office in Torrance and visiting with them about this whole concept Tom Stansell was there at that time too Just to give you an indicator the cost of that receiver board I remember we paid 510 for a six channel receiver code and carrier and I tell you the measurements on that receiver were tremendous back then Its really the basis I think for the Eric Gakstatter Contributing Editor for Survey and Geospatial Solutions GPS World For several widely read columns on what it will take to see large scale consumer adoption of centimeter accurate positioning GPS World December 2014 www gpsworld com 38
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