[time-nuts] Lucent KS-24361, HP/Symmetricom Z3809A, Z3810A, Z3811A, Z3812A GPSDO system
Bob Camp
kb8tq at n1k.org
Sat Nov 1 01:16:03 UTC 2014
Hi
One other possibility:
The GPS does a fast survey to get going. Then it starts a long / precision survey. It only stores the result if it finishes the precision survey. A good survey might be 10, 24, 48 or 72 hours….
Sure would be nice to have some basic info on these beasts ….
Bob
> On Oct 31, 2014, at 7:35 PM, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
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> bob at evoria.net said:
>> I've noticed the same. In looking at the Satstat program, it appears that
>> when you enter a location, that's only treated as a hint. There is also a
>> value you can set to zero that supposedly tells it to come up with the last
>> hold value. It didn't seem to work for me. I've finally got my location
>> and power cords in more or less permanent locations, but things happen.
>> And, I won't be getting a UPS for it for quite some time. Maybe someone
>> else has the secret sauce.
>
> There are several ideas tangled up in this area.
>
> If the GPS receiver has a recent enough almanac and you tell it the time
> and/or location, it can get started much quicker. The satellites broadcast
> on a known frequency, but the Doppler pushes that a long distance relative to
> the bandwidth. The almanac and time+location lets it compute which
> satellites are visible and the frequencies to listen on. That shortens a
> long search.
>
> Most/many GPS receivers have a watch crystal and clock and battery (or
> supercap) for this purpose.
>
> GPSDOs are usually used at fixed locations. If it saves the surveyed
> location it can avoid another survey on power up. You can save the surveyed
> location in flash so a battery isn't required.
>
> Some GPSDOs automatically save the results of a survey. Some don't. The
> Z3801A does an automatic save. The TBolt requires a command to save it.
>
> It can also save the GPS-UTC offset so it can deliver correct time in UTC
> without waiting to get that info from a satellite.
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