[time-nuts] Relationship between "fixes" and time duration?

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Sun May 5 18:18:14 UTC 2013


On 05/05/2013 04:15 PM, James Robbins wrote:
> What is the relationship between the T'Bolt survey "fixes" number (e.g. 2000) and number of hours duration of the survey?  Is it one "fix" per second or something?  What number of fixes should be input to accomplish a 24 hour or a 48 hour survey?

If there is too few sats to get a fix, then it waits until it has 
sufficients sats for the next fix. So, rather than a fixed time, you get 
a fixed number of fixes, and the reception situation will decide how 
long time it takes to get the same minimum quality fix.

Cheers,
Magnus



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