For the price people are paying on eBay, it seems almost easier to sell a Z3801 and but a Fury... lol.
But then that would defeat the whole challenge of a DIY project. ;) Back on topic - From what I remember reading, I thought the sawtooth bug was in earlier firmware versions. What about the newer firmwares that supposedly have that fixed (or was it never fixed)? >I seem to remember that one or more of the HP boxes that used the 6/8 channel >Motorola GPS receivers used a secret method of making use of the sawtooth error >information. Some trick was needed because there was a bug that caused the >sawtooth to be wrong every now and then and it always was wrong in the same >polarity. Therefore you could not average using the sawtooth. Most >applications just ignored the sawtooth output and averaged. > >But if the Z3801 is using the sawtooth, and you replace the receiver with >another model, then there will be a problem. A fix would be if someone would >come clean and tell us how HP got around the sawtooth bug in detail, then you >could take the output from an M12+T and recreate a data stream that would look >just like the 6/8 channel unit including the buggy sawtooth byte. > >Have Fun, >Brooke Clarke _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
