AstroNerd wrote: I really don’t see what all the hype is about in this thread, a GPS is a great add on for my kit, and it gives all the needed info to the system, it is not, as has been said a bad thing at all and works very well. It only sets the time and position once during the initial set up of ekos during a session, the default setting is to not refresh...now if you were to start refreshing all the item then yes, that would not be good, but this just isn’t the case...so my GPS UBLOX dongle will stay put.....

There's no hype. I had a discussion with Jasem about this, and he asked that I make a post about it, and submit an article via the "Research" link above (which doesn't work). Technical posts which provide advice contrary to the "conventional wisdom" always receive pushback and questions, as they should. Such discussion tests the knowledge presented, and aids in understanding. Unfortunately, it's the Internet, and so such posts always attract lots of bombastic ignorance as well.

Where the post went south of right and wrong, was when someone here with Moderator rights, abused the authority they were entrusted with, and proceeded to repeatedly modify what I've written, without notice to me or any other reader, or in support of any rule. They did it purely to appease their own ego.

If this is permitted here, I won't be posting here again.

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