[time-nuts] Trimble Resolution SMT - good/bad/indifferent?
Jim Lux
jimlux at earthlink.net
Fri May 11 13:09:07 UTC 2012
On 5/11/12 4:34 AM, shalimr9 at gmail.com wrote:
> Yes, I moved them yesterday
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> Didier KO4BB
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> From: Mark Sims
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> Why in the hell would anybody build a 50 channel receiver? At most you MIGHT see 12 usable GPS sats... I don't think that I've seen over 10. WAAS should be fairly useless for a timing receiver.
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> Supposedly the Nortel NTGS50AA docs and support info (including GPSMONITOR were uploaded to the KO4BB site).
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"channel" in GPS receiver speak is more than a single satellite.. L1 +
L2 + L5 would be three channels.
Sometimes the P/Y code is considered a separate channel.
And when you start adding in other constellations and S/Vs (QZSS,
Galileo, GLONASS), you add channels.
ANd here's another reason to claim "X channels" where "Y<<X" is the most
you're likely to use. It gives an indication of processor/FPGA
resources consumed, and can be used to estimate "margin" in a
utilization review.
For instance, if I've demonstrated acquiring and tracking 100 "channels"
in the lab, and I know I'm never going to see more than, say, 12, in the
field, then it is unlikely that there's some obscure timing/processor
loading bug that's going to cause a problem.
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