[time-nuts] Rb vs.Crystal OCXO
Tom Van Baak
tvb at LeapSecond.com
Sun Apr 27 14:02:24 UTC 2014
> The Pendulum GPS-88 and GPS-89 have a button on the front you push when
> you want to force it into hold-over to do your measurement, for this
> very reason.
>
> PPS steering and OCXO steering is the same thing once you forced the PPS
> into the right range. Some *really* depend on the synchronicity between
> 10 MHz and PPS, and you should not obscure it if possible.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
When doing a sensitive measurement where stability is more important than accuracy I turn off GPS disciplining.
The TBolt has commands to go into and out of holdover. But more effective are the 0x8E,0xA3,4 and 0x8E,0xA3,5 commands which simply disable and enable disciplining.
/tvb
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