Re: [time-nuts] Setting correct date on Trimble Thunderbolt receiver

2018-03-26 Thread David C. Partridge
AFAIK you can't set the correct date any more - this is the 1024 week rollover problem. Lady Heather does correct the displayed date, as it knows that the reported date is wrong.. David -Original Message- From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of donandarl...@gm

Re: [time-nuts] Setting correct date on Trimble Thunderbolt receiver

2018-03-26 Thread Tom Van Baak
Don, The primary purpose of a Thunderbolt GPSDO is ultra-precise time (1PPS) and frequency (10 MHz), locked to each other, and to UTC. The good news is these two BNC outputs are unaffected by the date issue that you describe. The TBolt is designed to run fine on its own; you typically don't nee

[time-nuts] What does determine the short term stability of an Rb vapor cell standard?

2018-03-26 Thread cdelect
Here is an clip from one of the space qualified ones Bob mentioned. "The RAFS employs classical rubidium gas cell atomic frequency standard principles. It utilizes a physics package with a discrete isotopic filter cell for best stability. The relatively large, cool absorption cell provides excepti

[time-nuts] Setting correct date on Trimble Thunderbolt receiver

2018-03-26 Thread donandarline
Hello all, I am new to the board and have just received a Trimble Thunderbolt GPS receiver today. All is working correctly except the date shows Aug 10 1998. How do set the proper date on this? I am running TBoltMon to access the unit. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Don W9BHI _

Re: [time-nuts] What does determine the short term stability of an Rb vapor cell standard?

2018-03-26 Thread Bob kb8tq
Hi > On Mar 26, 2018, at 2:18 AM, Attila Kinali wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 15:28:10 -0400 > Bob kb8tq wrote: > >> Well, magnetic shielding, temperature coupling between cells, photo detector >> noise floor, phase noise of the various signals, basic stability of the >> “ocxo” and >> I’m s

Re: [time-nuts] What does determine the short term stability of an Rb vapor cell standard?

2018-03-26 Thread ew via time-nuts
In the PRS 10 The OCXO is controlled by a DAC not directly by the optical package. With Corby's work on the Super where he also used in one case a good and an other case  not so good 10811 it is the S/N  at the detector output in a 0.05 sec loop that makes the difference. Results where the same.