[time-nuts] trimble thunderbolt has no satellites

[Chris Caudle]

On 2020-12-03 01:51, jan.catrysse at gmail.com wrote:
> I had a Trimble thunderbolt running the whole summer and when checking
> today, it seems I lost satellite tracking.

It is worth trying a different antenna.  The lack of antenna alarm in 
the monitor program indicates that the amplifier in the antenna has not 
failed completely, at least not in a way that causes it to stop drawing 
current, or draw too much current, but lack of satellites tracked would 
seem to indicate something in the front end RF chain.  Antenna is the 
easiest to check.  If not the antenna then possibly the front end RF 
amplifier was damaged, but I've never looked into how difficult that 
would be to change.  Hopefully just a damaged antenna from a summer 
thunderstorm or similar.

-- Chris Caudle