[time-nuts] Spectracom 9189 no longer syncing after power cycle and WRNO? Anyone else have same issue?

[David Howells]

Thanks Paul - that fixed it:  I moved the antenna to a really clear area 
and left it on for a few hours.  It then came back to life.

Much appreciated.

On 4/10/2019 5:56 PM, paul swed wrote:
> David
> Suggestion. See if you can upgrade the firmware if possible.
> Then turn on and let it run a long time like days.
> I had another product that thought the date was 1 jan 2019.
> No way to set the date. Stupid. But giving it a long time it must have
> finally hit a satellite and figure everything out.
> So give it some serious time and if there is a serial access see what date
> and time it thinks it is.
> Hope that helps.
> Regards
> Paul.
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 2:06 PM David Howells via time-nuts <
> time-nuts at lists.febo.com> wrote:
>
>> According to Orolia/Spectracom the 9189 is supposed to have survived the
>> recent WNRO (Older models described here -
>>
>> https://www.orolia.com/documents/gps-week-rollover-issues-public-safety-products/attachment
>> )
>>
>> "Testing on the    918x has shown that the unit is not affected by the
>> GPS week rollover in April of     2019 and will continue to provide the
>> correct UTC time and process leap seconds properly. However, it was
>> determined during testing that the    918x units will stop processing
>> time correctly after August   14, 2021."
>>
>> Unfortunately, I made the grave mistake of having the audacity to turn
>> off power to my unit (to move it), and now it no longer syncs!
>>
>> Has anyone else got a unit which has exhibited the same issue (please do
>> not power cycle to prove the point!)?  If so, I'll put this down to a
>> bad purchase - it's basically junk after 2021 anyway, but if not I'll
>> look to see what might have happened due to the power cycle.
>>
>> Thanks, David.
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts at lists.febo.com
>> To unsubscribe, go to
>> http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com
>> and follow the instructions there.
>>
> _______________________________________________
> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts at lists.febo.com
> To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com
> and follow the instructions there.