[time-nuts] Thunderbolt plug and play

[Keith G Malcolm]

Hello David,

I'm a complete beginner in this field, but after a lot of reading and 
following these threads, I finally bought a Tbolt from China via 
e-bay. Arrived in just under a week by post, plugged it in to power 
and antenna and got 10 MHz output.

I eventually connected a lap-top PC via a USB-serial adaptor cable, 
ran Tboltmon (downloadable from the Trimble site) (took longer to 
find which COM port the thing was using) and got a nice display. The 
unit was still showing its previous location as reference, so I just 
used Tboltmon to reset to my location using the position data shown 
by the Tbolt. Couldn't have been easier. I got mine from seller nhbbobb.

Regards.

Keith G Malcolm
VK1KM



At 03:44 AM 1/07/2009, time-nuts-request at febo.com wrote:


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>Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:28:07 +0100
>From: "David Hilton-Jones" <David.Hilton-Jones at clneuro.ox.ac.uk>
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>I am not very much interested in how it is achieved, but wonder if a
>10MHz oscillator locked to GPS is now available as "plug&play" rather
>than needing a lot of time/effort/building.
>
>I note the Thunderbolt units available from the Far East on ebay
>for~?80gbp. Are these really P&P - that is, just connect PSU and
>aerial and out comes 10MHz locked to GPS? Is it necessary to connect to
>a computer via the RS232 link, or is that just there if you want to
>fiddle and be clever?
>
>If so, then this may be preferrable to running my rubidium source
>continuously.
>
>What I am interested in is stability, not ultiamte accuracy.
>
>As always, sorry for the naivety of the question.
>
>Thanks
>
>
>David, G4YTL