[time-nuts] Building a GPSDO & trouble using Jupiter-T
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Mon Jan 30 04:40:52 UTC 2012
> What do you mean by "average"? Do you mean that the GPS and PLL must be
> kept on for "20 minutes to hours", or did you mean that the PLL loop filter
> must have a time constant of 20 minutes to several hours?
You have to compare the characteristics of the oscillator with the
characteristics of your GPS receiver.
If your local oscillator is very stable, then you want to average over long
times (hours, days). If your local oscillator is a good thermometer and you
have a very good GPS receiver, then you want a shorter time constant
(minutes) so you can track temperature changes.
Do you know about hanging bridges? If not, please read Timing for VLBI by
Tom Clark and Rick Hambly. It's got some wonderful graphs. Once you
understand those, this discussion will get much more interesting.
http://gpstime.com/files/tow-time2009.pdf
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