[time-nuts] Has my TBolt gone south ?

[Jason Ball]

Or if your in Australia, a cockatoo.   I've had to rerun my coax twice over
the past 12 months 😠

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 9:18 AM, William Beam <wbeam at gci.net> wrote:

> A nearby thunderstorm could have taken out the preamp in the antenna.
>
> 73 Bill Beam
> NL7F
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> Subject:Re: [time-nuts] Has my TBolt gone south ?
>
>  On 8/12/2015 8:29 PM, Hal Murray wrote:
>
>  > How long did you wait after turning it on?
>  > How good is your antenna position?
>  > Did you tell it to remember the location after a survey finished?
>  >
>  > If it's been off for a few weeks, it doesn't know where the
> satellites are.
>  > To get started, it has to find one by a brute force search. With a
> good
>  > antenna, that doesn't take very long. Then it takes 15 minutes to
> collect
>  > the satellite info. With a poor antenna location, it takes longer,
> maybe a
>  > lot longer.
>
>  Thanks Hal for your answer.
>
>  My TB now is switched on since yesterday, but no satellites are
> acquired...
>  Last time I switched it on, it worked, and, even after a long off
> period, it did take not more than
>  a few minutes to acquire the first satellite.
>
>  Yesterday, after I saw that no satellites did show up in LH, I issued
> the ! command to do a cold reset,
>  just to see if it could be of help.
>
>  My antenna is a timing antenna, on the chimney of my house,
> completely free from obstacles.
>  There is the possibilities that a thunderstorm has broken its small
> mast, tomorrow I will check.
>  This seems to be the only reasonable cause of the malfunction... the
> TB accepts commands
>  and sends back status info. Unless its GPS receiver has developed a
> fault..
>
>  73 Alberto I2PHD
>
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