Re: [time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A

2010-06-25 Thread Robert Benward
nge on the boundries. Would not switching satellites account for that? Bob - Original Message - From: "Hal Murray" To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 5:40 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A

Re: [time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A

2010-06-24 Thread Hal Murray
> Is it possible the phase shift is caused by the doppler of the satellite? Not likely. Everything in this area is explained by the GPS receiver having a local crystal that isn't locked to a reference. See Tom's heater experiment: http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/vp/heater.htm -- These a

Re: [time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A

2010-06-24 Thread Hal Murray
rbenw...@verizon.net said: > What about the antenna cable length compensation? How much does that > affect the AVAR? The software in the GPS board can't measure the length of the antenna cable. If you don't correct for it, the PPS signal will be off by the speed of light delay. That's (very

Re: [time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A

2010-06-24 Thread Matthew Kaufman
moving the antenna to the other side of the roof, or across town? Sounds suspciously like interference. Bob - Original Message - From: "Matthew Kaufman" > To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:41 AM Subject:

Re: [time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A

2010-06-24 Thread Robert Benward
will slant the other way. Does any of this sound plausible? Bob - Original Message - From: To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 12:02 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A Hi Bob, Old GPS receive

Re: [time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A

2010-06-24 Thread Robert Benward
Thanks for the info and the links! Bob - Original Message - From: To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 12:02 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A Hi Bob, Old GPS receivers had bad resolution with

Re: [time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A

2010-06-24 Thread Robert Benward
rement" Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A I now have *two* Z3801A units which misbehave in the following way (which this thread reminded me of): The GPS status says it acquires quite a few (5-6) satellites with high signal strength... th

Re: [time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A

2010-06-24 Thread bg
VAR? > > Bob > > > - Original Message - > From: "Steve Rooke" > To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" > > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:11 AM > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A > > > Sorry to butt

Re: [time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A

2010-06-24 Thread Matthew Kaufman
I now have *two* Z3801A units which misbehave in the following way (which this thread reminded me of): The GPS status says it acquires quite a few (5-6) satellites with high signal strength... then after a minute or two, for no apparent reason, it loses *all* of them simultaneously but immedia

Re: [time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A

2010-06-24 Thread Robert Benward
recise time and frequency measurement" Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A Sorry to butt in on this thread but, although you need a number of birds to get an accurate position, you really only need one to get timing. If you have a six sat tra

Re: [time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A

2010-06-24 Thread Steve Rooke
satellite at a time? Maybe I will leave well enough alone. > > Bob > > > > - Original Message - From: "Mike S" > To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" > > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 9:01 AM > Subject: Re: [time-

Re: [time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A

2010-06-24 Thread bg
Hi Mike, > At 10:48 PM 6/23/2010, Robert Benward wrote... >>Has anyone ever put another GPS in a Z3801A? Will the software >>accommodate >>another GPS that tracks say, 12 channels? > > Possibly 8 channels. You must use a Motorola Oncore VP. A 6 channel one > was what HP used. There are mixed repo

Re: [time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A

2010-06-24 Thread Robert Benward
ike S" To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 9:01 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A At 10:48 PM 6/23/2010, Robert Benward wrote... Has anyone ever put another GPS in a Z3801A? Will the software accommodate anothe

Re: [time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A

2010-06-24 Thread Mike S
At 10:48 PM 6/23/2010, Robert Benward wrote... Has anyone ever put another GPS in a Z3801A? Will the software accommodate another GPS that tracks say, 12 channels? Possibly 8 channels. You must use a Motorola Oncore VP. A 6 channel one was what HP used. There are mixed reports on using an 8

Re: [time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A

2010-06-23 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 06/24/2010 04:48 AM, Robert Benward wrote: Has anyone ever put another GPS in a Z3801A? Will the software accommodate another GPS that tracks say, 12 channels? I very much doubt that the software would handle more than 6 channels properly. Also, wasn't there a shift in commands when jumpin

[time-nuts] Substitute GPS in a Z3801A

2010-06-23 Thread Robert Benward
Has anyone ever put another GPS in a Z3801A? Will the software accommodate another GPS that tracks say, 12 channels? Bob ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and