[time-nuts] Important parameters for a GPS/GNSS antenna

Tom Van Baak tvb at LeapSecond.com
Sun May 3 14:43:29 UTC 2015


> I wonder if anybody ever made a rotating GPS antenna to average out the
> X-Y phase-center offset ?

PHK,

I ran across this wonderful "shaker table" experiment and concluded that post-processing would always be better than playing moving antenna games.

See pages 9-13 of:
http://www.nceo.ac.uk/assets/presentations/2012_conference_NOTTINGHAM/NCEOCONF2012_0919_Atkins.pdf

If nothing else, it makes a wonderful test of your GPS receiver's time/position resolution. Something to do with an old 33 RPM turntable...

/tvb



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