[time-nuts] Failure mode in GPS receivers

[Bruce Lane]

Good day,

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On 17-Dec-06 at 21:25 bg at lysator.liu.se wrote:

>On Sun, December 17, 2006 20:54, Poul-Henning Kamp said:
>> In message <200612171136230661.088C8673 at 192.168.42.129>, "Bruce Lane"
>> writes:
>>>Fellow clock-tickers,
>>>
>>>       In the group's experience, what's the most common failure
>>> mode for GPS receivers, especially older ones, that could stop them
>>> from hearing the sats?
>>
>> Antenna damage.
>
>Did not a hardcoded GPS-week limitation strike quite a lot of older Datum
>stuff?

	In a word... huh?

	Methinks I'd better go do some googling... Unless you'd care to expand on that? ;-)




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