[time-nuts] PCTEL Timing Antenna with integrated GPS Receiver?

[John Miller]

Hello All,
I was browsing around looking at surplussed reference antennas, like you do, and I stumbled across something really interesting and impulse bought it because it was cheap enough. It’s a PCTEL GPS-TMG-RCVR232-NLM - the 232 in the model name may catch your eye. Before reading the model number, what got me was the connector on the bottom - not N or TNC like you may expect, but a large aviation-style 8 pin DIN connector.

I found a spec sheet here: https://www.winncom.com/pdf/PCTel_GPS_TMG_RCVR/PCTel_GPS-TMG-RCVR_Series.pdf <https://www.winncom.com/pdf/PCTel_GPS_TMG_RCVR/PCTel_GPS-TMG-RCVR_Series.pdf>

Nothing too impressive, but it looks neat to me. As long as it doesn’t have leap second issues, I’m going to incorporate it into the rest of my stack. 

Has anyone ever used one of these before? Any familiarity?

Regards,
John