[time-nuts] Datum/Trimble 9390

2009-03-26 Thread Lasse
I got an e-mail from the local rep of Symmetricom... and he acknowledged that Symmetricom ARE working on new f/w for the 9390-6000. No timeframe or any other information was given at the time, but I am confident we will have a set of E-Proms with new f/w pretty soon. Don't scrap your clock just

Re: [time-nuts] Datum/Trimble 9390

2009-03-25 Thread Russell Rezaian
Sorry to jump in, but does anyone have any thoughts on whether this might also be involved in the odd year rollover issue seen on many TrueTime devices? This is the issue where the work around for the TrueTime clocks is to use the F68 command to set the year explicitly to 1996. From what I

[time-nuts] Datum/Trimble 9390

2009-03-24 Thread Corby Dawson
We use the Trimble 9390 where I work. Around the Y2K period we received new EPROM sets to put into the units. I checked yesterday and they are displaying the correct day and year. Let me see if I can find a spare set of EPROMS to download. Corby Dawson

Re: [time-nuts] Datum/Trimble 9390

2009-03-24 Thread Bruce Lane
Hi, Corby, *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 24-Mar-09 at 09:04 Corby Dawson wrote: We use the Trimble 9390 where I work. Around the Y2K period we received new EPROM sets to put into the units. I checked yesterday and they are displaying the correct day and year. Let me see if I

Re: [time-nuts] Datum/Trimble 9390

2009-03-24 Thread Norman J McSweyn
Corby Dawson wrote: We use the Trimble 9390 where I work. Around the Y2K period we received new EPROM sets to put into the units. I checked yesterday and they are displaying the correct day and year. Let me see if I can find a spare set of EPROMS to download. Corby Dawson

Re: [time-nuts] Datum/Trimble 9390

2009-03-24 Thread Glenn Little WB4UIV
I have a 9390-5593 that does not display the correct date. The GPS engine uses two processors and three ROMS. These are glued together with an ASIC. I contacted Trimble and they cannot identify their engine. I have read the ROMs and am in the process of disassembling the code. This is slow. I