[time-nuts] How do I measure oscillator frequency using 1pps?
Tom Van Baak
tvb at leapsecond.com
Sat Jul 9 21:25:33 EDT 2005
> If you look at the Time Interval once per day you will have 9 ns of
> sigma on the GPS signal which divided by 86,400 seconds is 1E-13. But
> the 9 ns number gets divided by SQRT(n) where n is the number of
> readings you are averaging, so in my case of 1,000 averages the 1 day
> accuracy is about 3E-15.
The sqrt(N) trick only works when the N samples
are uncorrelated. With your setup you will get
some advantage in averaging but not sqrt(N).
> Another option is to use a computer to read the negative sawtooth
> correction from the GPS receiver and use that on a second by second
> basis to correct the 1 PPS TI.
A plain M12+ will give you about 9 ns rms; applying
the sawtooth corrections drops that down to about
3 ns rms. See:
http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/gps4/cns-1pps.gif
and
http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/m12/sawtooth.htm
/tvb
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