[time-nuts] HP 58503A GPS receiver not locking to GPS

[Dr. David Kirkby]

On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 at 02:55, Eric Garner <garnere at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have you manually set the date/time yet?
>
> Last time I powered mine up. I had to update the current time and date and
> it locked right up.
>
> -Eric


Yes, I have set time, date, location and antenna height.

When I first switched it on a few days ago I didn’t. It gave no information
about any satellites at all. Then I set the date and location, and it
appears that it is seeing some satellites, in that it’s trying to lock to a
few.

It has just crossed my mind that I set the time to GPS time, not UTC,
although I doubt an 18 s error is going to be significant, but I can reset
the time to UTC.

Dave.


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