A nearby thunderstorm could have taken out the preamp in the antenna. 73 Bill Beam NL7F ----- Original Message ----- From: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" To: Cc: Sent:Wed, 12 Aug 2015 23:29:45 +0200 Subject:Re: [time-nuts] Has my TBolt gone south ?
On 8/12/2015 8:29 PM, Hal Murray wrote: > How long did you wait after turning it on? > How good is your antenna position? > Did you tell it to remember the location after a survey finished? > > If it's been off for a few weeks, it doesn't know where the satellites are. > To get started, it has to find one by a brute force search. With a good > antenna, that doesn't take very long. Then it takes 15 minutes to collect > the satellite info. With a poor antenna location, it takes longer, maybe a > lot longer. Thanks Hal for your answer. My TB now is switched on since yesterday, but no satellites are acquired... Last time I switched it on, it worked, and, even after a long off period, it did take not more than a few minutes to acquire the first satellite. Yesterday, after I saw that no satellites did show up in LH, I issued the ! command to do a cold reset, just to see if it could be of help. My antenna is a timing antenna, on the chimney of my house, completely free from obstacles. There is the possibilities that a thunderstorm has broken its small mast, tomorrow I will check. This seems to be the only reasonable cause of the malfunction... the TB accepts commands and sends back status info. Unless its GPS receiver has developed a fault.. 73 Alberto I2PHD _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.