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how to set civilian GPS receiver clock

9 Sep 2008 | by Barton, in car GPS, cell phone GPS, gps questions

How does a civilian GPS receiver accurately set its clock? Where is there a good gps receiver description online? how most gps receivers can calculate the correct time? I’m also interested how a gps receiver can discriminate satellites’ C/A trains with multiple radios when all satellites are transmitting at the same frequency? Wouldn’t all the radios (like on a 12-radio GPS receiver) be listening to exactly the same thing? Seems like they’d all be stepping on themselves and not be separable.
Most gps receiver electronics have manuals/directions on their websites. …