That would be awesome. I've had to retire two Eggfinders because of this issue.
If you're adventurous Chuck, you could try what I did. I took a cut-off wheel and very carefully cut a line in the base in half. If you go a little deep and cut a few traces, it's easy to make
and solder wire bridges. Next get the soldering iron good and hot. Lay it down as flat as you can get on the solder pads on one side and hold the whole affair upside down.
If you have a desoldering sucker, you can try to get as much solder off the pads in the "right side up" position first. The goal is to get one side of the base to fall off the board.
That's the reason I split it as I didn't have the means to heat both side at once. Now attack the other side and get that half of the base off.
Now repair and damaged traces with soldered wire bridges. Next, if this is the old v1 of the EggFinder, one can use the 3.3V terminals on the aft end of the board for power to a GPS chipset.
The final thing is to solder the TX out lead from the GPS chipset to the RCV in pad where the old GPS sat. It's on the lower left of the pad base with the antenna facing left. I can't remember for the moment if it's the most lower left pad or the one next to it. I can look when I get home and post it. That's it. Three wires from another GPS to the EF board two for power, one for signal and it will work again.
I did it twice already and one Ublox GPS receiver has a really reliable circularly polarized receiving antenna. The altitude reporting might be more accurate than the SirfIV device but I haven't been able to fly it yet.
I should have realized this was a possibility as my first EggFinder I built (right after they came out) lasted all but 15 minutes. Worked great until it fell 4 feet off the windowsill when testing
and the GPS antenna snapped off the base. It lived in my junk box until I realized it might be salvageable (while I was experimenting with making ematches one cold winter!)
I'm glad this has been reported as I've laid beads of Proline 4500 epoxy down both sides of the GPS antennas of my stock units. The fore and aft portions of the antenna base with the
solder pads is in too close proximity of other components so I didn't do a "four sided" reinforcing regimen. There are also slits there to allow air to get to components in the base so I
STRONGLY recommend one lays epoxy on the sides of the antenna/pc board interface. That'll be plenty strong and I bet will out perform
shrink wrap. Kurt