Re: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for any GPSDOs?

2009-01-06 Thread Björn Gabrielsson
Hi Matt, On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 22:03 -0800, Matt Ettus wrote: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:27 PM, wrote: > > Hi Matt, > > > > having 140ps matching of the 1PPS between units is the equivalent of > > knowing > > your antenna position to within ~0.14 feet total error max. > > > > Thats less than o

Re: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for any GPSDOs?

2009-01-05 Thread Matt Ettus
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:59 PM, wrote: > Hi Matt, > > I must admit I don't fully understand your requirements. Are you looking for > correlation between errors, or absolute UTC accuracy, or short term > jitter/wander? > > If you have two systems with self-surveyed antenna positions, you will >

Re: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for any GPSDOs?

2009-01-05 Thread SAIDJACK
Hi Matt, I must admit I don't fully understand your requirements. Are you looking for correlation between errors, or absolute UTC accuracy, or short term jitter/wander? If you have two systems with self-surveyed antenna positions, you will likely have 1 - 10 feet of antenna height error i

Re: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for any GPSDOs?

2009-01-05 Thread Matt Ettus
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:27 PM, wrote: > Hi Matt, > > having 140ps matching of the 1PPS between units is the equivalent of knowing > your antenna position to within ~0.14 feet total error max. > > Thats less than one inch error per antenna! That makes it sound a lot more difficult than it reall

Re: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for any GPSDOs?

2009-01-05 Thread Lux, James P
On 1/5/09 9:27 PM, "saidj...@aol.com" wrote: > Hi Matt, > > having 140ps matching of the 1PPS between units is the equivalent of knowing > your antenna position to within ~0.14 feet total error max. > > Thats less than one inch error per antenna! > > That would require some serious antenna su

Re: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for any GPSDOs?

2009-01-05 Thread SAIDJACK
Hi Matt, having 140ps matching of the 1PPS between units is the equivalent of knowing your antenna position to within ~0.14 feet total error max. Thats less than one inch error per antenna! That would require some serious antenna surveying :) This accuracy is impossible to achieve with ti

Re: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for any GPSDOs?

2009-01-05 Thread Magnus Danielson
> For the carrier itself absolute phase measurements cant be done. > Such phase measurements only have meaning when modulation is present. Alternating modulation frequency may do it for instance. Choosing a set of modulation frequencies being relative prime to each other alows for several readi

Re: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for any GPSDOs?

2009-01-05 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Matt Matt Ettus wrote: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Bruce Griffiths > wrote: > >> Matt >> >> Matt Ettus wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Bruce Griffiths >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> If the application is somewhat analogous to VLBI, then the maximum (uncorrect

Re: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for any GPSDOs?

2009-01-05 Thread Matt Ettus
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Bruce Griffiths wrote: > Matt > > Matt Ettus wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Bruce Griffiths >> wrote: >> >> >>> If the application is somewhat analogous to VLBI, then the maximum >>> (uncorrectable ie random) allowable carrier frequency phase errors >>>

Re: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for any GPSDOs?

2009-01-05 Thread Matt Ettus
frequency measurement >> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for any GPSDOs? >> >> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Lux, James P >> wrote: >> > >> > >> >> -Original Message- >> >> From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.c

Re: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for any GPSDOs?

2009-01-05 Thread Bruce Griffiths
ary 05, 2009 11:31 AM >>> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement >>> Subject: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for any GPSDOs? >>> >>> I am working with someone who needs to have time synchronized >>> reception of signals in various loca

Re: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for any GPSDOs?

2009-01-05 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Matt Matt Ettus wrote: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Bruce Griffiths > wrote: > > >> If the application is somewhat analogous to VLBI, then the maximum >> (uncorrectable ie random) allowable carrier frequency phase errors >> between receivers depends on the integration time. >> Maximum int

Re: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for any GPSDOs?

2009-01-05 Thread Lux, James P
> -Original Message- > From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com > [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Matt Ettus > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:28 PM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for

Re: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for any GPSDOs?

2009-01-05 Thread Matt Ettus
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Bruce Griffiths wrote: > > If the application is somewhat analogous to VLBI, then the maximum > (uncorrectable ie random) allowable carrier frequency phase errors > between receivers depends on the integration time. > Maximum integration times for VLBI are typicall

Re: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for any GPSDOs?

2009-01-05 Thread Matt Ettus
ecise time and frequency measurement >> Subject: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for any GPSDOs? >> >> I am working with someone who needs to have time synchronized >> reception of signals in various locations which are separated >> by less than 100 km. This is a situation s

Re: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for any GPSDOs?

2009-01-05 Thread SAIDJACK
Hi Matt, on Fury we typically see the 1PPS aligned to within +/-25ns or so without calibration when two units use the same antenna feed. There is a good paper on the M12+ receiver's accuracy from Synergy/NIST, they tested five receivers against UTC (at UTC!!). They came up with a baseline

Re: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for any GPSDOs?

2009-01-05 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Matt Ettus wrote: > I am working with someone who needs to have time synchronized > reception of signals in various locations which are separated by less > than 100 km. This is a situation similar to VLBI, but since the > distances are shorter, the center frequencies are lower, and the > integrati

Re: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for any GPSDOs?

2009-01-05 Thread Lux, James P
> -Original Message- > From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com > [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Matt Ettus > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 11:31 AM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: [time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for an

[time-nuts] Common sky pps errors for any GPSDOs?

2009-01-05 Thread Matt Ettus
I am working with someone who needs to have time synchronized reception of signals in various locations which are separated by less than 100 km. This is a situation similar to VLBI, but since the distances are shorter, the center frequencies are lower, and the integration times are much shorter, w