[time-nuts] NTGS50AA, better than Thunderbolt

Bruce Griffiths bruce.griffiths at xtra.co.nz
Thu May 3 20:01:48 UTC 2012


John Miles wrote:
>> While I've not tried the recently suggested method for making it talk to
>>      
> LH,
>    
>> I did find another crude way that works. If you get it talking to TBOLTMON
>> or some similar software via the front panel, you can use LH on another
>> computer on the rear-panel monitor port to monitor what comes back, but
>> again, not all messages are supported.
>>
>> I'd love to see LH (and Z3XXX if possible!) support the NNTSG50AA fully.
>>      
> If
>    
>> anyone out there has documentation for the comms syntax of the
>> NTGS50AA,
>> we'd be pleased to hear!
>>      
> I've got one on order.  Assuming it works, I'll get with Mark when it
> arrives and we'll put a new LH build together, based on whatever protocol
> documentation we can come up with.
>
> -- john
> Miles Design LLC
>
>
>    
These appear to use a Trimble 34310-T2 OCXO.
The 34310 variant (at least the pair I have) doesn't have the same low 
noise as the OCXO in the Thunderbolt.
The T2 variant may differ.

Bruce




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