Ronan Flood wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:21:22 +0200,
> "Maarten Wiltink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> "Hal Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>> Suppose I had something like a Rubidium oscillator that makes
>>> a nice PPS signal, but it's not synchronized to a second boundary.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to take advantage of that?
>> If I've understood past news correctly, you can connect it as a
>> PPS source and, once you have an idea of its offset, tinker/fudge
>> it so it does appear synchronised to the second boundary.
>>
>> The bad news is that my recollection of said past news is also that
>> this didn't quite work then. I think the offset correction was
>> applied at the wrong point, so it still appeared off-beat. But
>> perhaps that got fixed in the meantime.
> 
> I hope so, as that's how we're planning to hook-up a Rubidium oscillator,
> using refclock_atom!  Without kernel/hardpps, i.e. flag3=0.
> 
> Note that we expect to have to alter the fudge regularly to track Rb aging.
> 


It should work - it's the flag3 = 1 mode thats broken.

John

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