[time-nuts] Something with GPS??

paul swed paulswedb at gmail.com
Mon May 28 01:20:10 UTC 2012


Chuck
Funny you mention that. I am near Boston and I fired up the austron 2201
yesterday and noticed on occasion it seemed to be loosing lock. Over the 13
hours running 3 times.
Did not dive in as I actually just needed the 1992 date for yesterday for
another time nut.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL


On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
<caf at omen.com>wrote:

> Last evening my Thunderbolt was losing satellites until
> none were reported usable.  At the same time the
> K5FX Thunderbolt  was down to one or no usable birds.
>
> This afternoon I dug out my other thunderbolt, the first
> one I got.  That one had a defective OCXO which I replaced
> with a 49422.  That couldn't get any usable birds either.
>
> Now things are back to normal.  K5FX is happy and so
> are both of my Thunderbolts.
>
> So -- What happened?  Anyone else notice something
> out of the ordinary?  Someone practicing GPS jamming?
>
> BTW Is there a spot on the Thunderbolt where I can
> sample the RF or IF to feed a spectrum analyzer?  The signal
> coming down the coax is too weak to see on my
> analyzers.
>
>
> --
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