[time-nuts] Z3801A good GPS-receiver

[John Ackermann N8UR]

Magnus Danielson wrote:
> Hi Folks!
> 
> Well, lacking a GPS receiver I see that they (HP Z3801A) seem to be readilly
> available for fairly good price. It also seems popular in the "community".
> What do you think? Should I get one?
> 
> Having a R&S Rubidium running, a few HP 10811 (usually turned off) in various
> instruments and a Toyo oscillator (constantly running) it would be nice to have
> some traceability. So, is this good bang for the buck?

Hi Magnus --

I suspect that a large percentage of us on this list have a Z3801A --
and if you add Tom's collection, it probably averages out to at least
one each!

They are very good units and provide a nice way to get traceability.
You might check out
http://www.realhamradio.com/GPS_Frequency_Standard.htm which has a lot
of information about these units.

I've also written some Perl programs to log data from them under *nix,
similar to the Windows software that's available (see links on the
realhamradio site for the Windows version).

John