[time-nuts] Re: Please help. Motorola Oncore

[Gregory Beat]

IF you start with Fixed Position mode, THEN this speeds up process.
I would also suggest a CLEAR View of Sky for the Antenna.

Motorola Oncore UT Plus Engineering Notes (circa 2000)
https://synergy-gps.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ut-engg-notes.pdf

Motorola Oncore GT Plus Engineering Notes (circa 2000)
https://www.tapr.org/pdf/GT_Eng_Notes.pdf

UT Plus model numbers:
R5122U111x - right angle OSX
R5222U111x - right angle OSX, on-board Lithium battery
R5122U115x - straight OSX 

GT Plus model numbers: 
R3111G111x - standard version
R3211G111x - on-board Lithium battery 
R3111G114x - SMB antenna connector

greg, w9gb
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Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 08:42:18 -0400
From: Marcelo Dantas <marcelo.f.dantas at gmail.com>
Subject: [time-nuts] Thanks for adding me, and please help. Motorola Oncore
To: time-nuts at lists.febo.com

Hi there Everyone,

Thanks for accepting me to this list.
I am in (dire) need of help here and maybe one of you is a Motorola Oncore
user and could assist.

I have a couple Motorola Oncore modules, which I use mounted to a
"baseboard" for timing purposes.
One is a R5222U1115 and the other a R3111G1112.
They have been sitting in a drawer for some time. Being "some time" since
the pre-pandemic era.
Now I am trying to use them again but for whatever reason they won't lock
to any satellites.
The modules are starting up, sending 1pps and seem to be accepting commands
correctly.
I have also tested the baseboard (power, serial, etc) and the antenna.
The antenna works well on a third (non-motorola) module.
I have tried everything, left the modules there running for 24 hours. 
No joy. None of them will lock to any satellites.
I have tried defaulting them using WinOncore, no change.
I have also tried to find an almanac file to upload, hoping it would help,
but couldn't find one with the required .alm file extension.
At this point I do not know what to do anymore. I have a system (module,
board, antenna, power, etc.) that should just work, and yet it refuses to.
Maybe there's some special factory reset? Maybe there's some command I do
not know about? Maybe other software than WinOncore with some extra
debug options?

Any guidance here would be deeply appreciated.

Thanks a lot in advance,
Marcelo.