Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (“Plugger”)
name: label: maker
content: Collins Avionics & Communications Division of Rockwell International
notes: label: Description
content: This Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) was made by Rockwell Collins between 1993 and 2005. It is a handheld, five-channel, single-frequency GPS receiver designed to be used by the U.S. military to display position, velocity and time of day. It is generally referred to as a “plugger” or “handpack.” It has an antenna, keyboard, backlit display, receiver processor unit and memory battery. It operates off either a power battery or an external power source. Designed for use anywhere in the world, it is watertight and can be used with night-vision goggles. The unit is designed to be held in the left hand and operated with the left thumb. The jacks on the unit allow it to be installed in a fixed location as well as on moving vehicles. When operated in the ”time-only” mode it can calculate time to less than 100 nanoseconds. This instrument essentially replaced the PSN-8 Manpack GPS receiver that the U.S. military used in Desert Storm.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Rockwell Collins Government Systems, “PLGR-96 Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver,” <i>Navigation and Landing Systems</i> January 1, 2001.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Iowa, Cedar Rapids
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Military
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content: Time and Navigation
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0006.02
label: accession number
content: 1997.0006
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0006.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gps receiver
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 cm x 16 cm x 7 cm; 9 7/16 in x 6 5/16 in x 2 3/4 in