ntrip and sending position

[Greg Troxel]

I recently tried to use the ntrip support, and have a few questions.

1) The man page says: to use a form like:

  ntrip://foo:address@hidden:80/example-stream

and I wonder what happens if one's username foo is an email address.
For now i have avoided this.

2) I am using a service provided by the Massachusetts Department of
Transportation called MaCORS.  It has a "Virtual Reference Station"
feature where it synthesiszes corrections for your location based on
multiple reference stations, and it can also pick the closest, depending
on the ntrip mountpoint.  See
  https://macors.massdot.state.ma.us/
if you are interested; it's available to the public, but only covers MA.

The man page doesn't address sending position.  The Emlid Reach RTK has
options to 1) not send 2) send a static lat/lon and 3) send the current
position solution.

3) I wonder how to monitor the ntrip stream.  I am sure it has carrier
phase, as people talk about RTK with it.  I think it also has
pseudorange corrections.  While I realize the primary path should be the
MaCORS docs, it seems the gpsd way would have some sort of monitor.


Other than "good ideas, ENOPATCH", any comments?