[time-nuts] GPS ANTENNA

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Mon Apr 2 10:07:39 UTC 2018


Question
Using L/H  what is too much signal 
Bert Kehren
 
In a message dated 4/1/2018 10:54:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, david.partridge at perdrix.co.uk writes:

 
 just use a bias tee to feed in the antenna volts :)

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From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Azelio Boriani
Sent: 01 April 2018 23:29
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] GPS ANTENNA

An unusual attenuator with a DC pass.

On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 10:21 PM, David C. Partridge <david.partridge at perdrix.co.uk> wrote:
> Or use a choke ring survey antenna and an attenuator :)
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Bob 
> kb8tq
> Sent: 01 April 2018 14:43
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] GPS ANTENNA
>
> Hi
>
> Indeed, it is *very* easy to put to much gain in front of a timing GNSS receiver. These beasts are trying to dig out a signal that you can’t even see with a spectrum analyzer.
> It’s way to far below the noise floor to detect that way. They optimize things pretty tightly to get that done (and to hit a price target ….). Put to much gain in front of them and they get unhappy.
>
> Making this even more crazy, the survey industry standard antenna *does* have a lot of gain. Survey receivers need way more gain in front of them than timing receivers. Put a survey antenna directly on a timing device and trouble will likely be the outcome. Equally, a survey instrument probably will not be happy with a timing receiver.
>
> Why all this nonsense? As far as I can tell, it goes back to how the very early L1 / L2 survey boxes were designed back in the 1980’s and early 1990’s. They made a basic decision to put a lot of gain at the antenna. Motorola came along with their GPS modules later on. They made a *very* different decision about how to distribute the gain. There are very good arguments on both sides for why they did it this way.
> The bottom line is still - you need to match things up …
>
> Bob
>
>> On Apr 1, 2018, at 2:36 AM, cfo <xnews5 at luna.dyndns.dk> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 10:58:19 -0500,
>> donandarline-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I found a supplier for high quality GPS antennas at a very 
>>> reasonable price. PCTEL GPSL1-TMG-SPI-40NCB.
>>
>> *** SNIP ***
>>
>> I had one of those on 25m cable, and it worked fine on a Tbolt , 
>> until i got an active antenna splitter that also had some gain.
>> Then i had to replace it w. a 26dB version of same type, else the 
>> "Jackson Lite" was loosing sync.
>>
>> What i mean here, is that you can get too much gain too.
>>
>> Btw: Good price.
>>
>> CFO
>> Denmark
>>
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