[time-nuts] Austron 2200 Y2K?

Mark C. Stephens marks at non-stop.com.au
Mon Jun 10 13:09:19 UTC 2013


Hiya Paul,


Nope,  no alarms about Antenna, methinks that could be bad!?

Also, I am curious to know if your 2200 had the reboot syndrome with dates beyond 1999?


-marki


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From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of paul swed
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Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Austron 2200 Y2K?

Merki
There should be alarms also about the lack of antenna.
But absolutely it has the y2K problem. This is what I mentioned to you in the response yesterday. So take todays date and subtract 1024 weeks and punch that in.
That does not matter though without the antenna down converter.
Thank you for doing the magic work on finding the battery. Now I can fix mine when it dies and it will.
I do not have an antenna for my unit. But in fact homebrewed an adapter for the Odetics antenna and then an alternate from a starlink gps rcvr that I use today. Not pretty but does work and frankly the method could be used with any gps rcvr that allows a 10 Mhz drive and has a 35.42 Mhz IF. So there is an answer.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL









On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Mark C. Stephens <marks at non-stop.com.au>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>
> I couldn't wait for the new RTC and zero-power nvram to arrive so I 
> took the Dremel to the 2 chips and successfully replaced the batteries myself.
> http://www.vk2hmc.net/blog/?p=245
>
> However, The Austron seems to have a problem with dates after 1999.
> As soon as I set the date to greater than 1999 off it goes into a 
> reboot loop and I have to switch off and remove the batteries, w a i t 
> and reinstall the batteries.
> Then the time is back to 1980 and it happily boots up.
>
> Have I got a non-compliant Y2K Austron 2200?
> What will happen when the GPS tells it the date is now 2013?
>
> As I have no antenna to test, I thought I would ask the groups Austron
> 2200 owners if they have seen this behaviour?.
>
> Also, Can I tell the Austron to lock the Rubidium to an external 
> PPS/10Mhz input rather than GPS?
> Just until I get an antenna sorted.
>
>
> -marki
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