[time-nuts] z3816A Problem

Mitchell Janoff majanoff at verizon.net
Thu Mar 26 00:47:35 UTC 2009


I'm having a problem with my Z3816A. The health monitor and self tests show
the unit is fine, but it never moves out of the Power-up GPS acquisition
mode. I've tried several antennas (one of them currently working fine on a
z3801 unit). The z3816A shows it is tracking anywhere from 0 to 6 satellites
but never has the El or Az information filled in. Trying to initialize it
using the :GPS:INIT:POS doesn't work, I get an error message back from the
unit (or a receiver timeout msg). Is there a way to reset to the original
factory settings without using the RS232 interface, or do additional
diagnostics?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.






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