[time-nuts] thunderbolt "no UTC offset"

[francesco messineo]

Hi Hal,


On 5/1/12, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
>
> francesco.messineo at gmail.com said:
>> I just powered on again my trimble thunderbolt after some time without
>> antenna. All alarms are green but the obvious leap second pending. BUT: I
>> can't use UTC time as both tboltmon and lady heather display a "No UTC
>> offset" message. I don't remember having seen this in the past. What's
>> wrong
>> with the thunderbolt now?
>
> How long has it been on?
>
> The UTC offset comes from the satellites.  I think it is only sent every
> hour.

yes indeed, it was ok after about 1 hour of the power up. Sorry but I
didn't remember I had ever waited so long for the UTC to come "on".
I'm now plotting the signal strength vs AZ/EL map, I'll post the
result tomorrow so maybe someone can tell me how the new antenna is
working.

Thanks
Frank IZ8DWF