Dave, I power cycled it about 20 days ago, which did no good. That is the 496 hours holdover time. This time, I did just the survey once command. I'll try your suggestion before attacking the hardware. I'm currently using Z38xx.exe.
Joe Gray W5JG On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 4:30 AM, Artek Manuals <manu...@artekmanuals.com> wrote: > Joe > > I am confused by the fact that it shows the unit has been in HOLDOVER for > 496 hours if you did a fresh survey > > Did you do a SYSTEM:PRESET: and GPS:POS:SURVEY:ONCE commands to initiate the > new survey or just the survey command or ???? What software are you running? > > I would power the unit down and let it sit for 24 hours and then do the two > commands above. > > What software are you running? > > Dave > NR1DX > > > > > > On 3/16/2016 7:38 PM, Joseph Gray wrote: >> >> As I mentioned a while back, my trusty Z3801A, which has worked well >> for several years, went into holdover some time ago and stayed there. >> Until recently, I haven't had time to look into this. About 20 days >> ago, I did power cycle it to see if that made a difference. It did >> not. >> >> In the middle of the night, last night (couldn't sleep), I decided to >> see what initiating a new survey would do. Since the unit doesn't lock >> to as many satellites as my Lucent with the newer Oncore, it took >> quite a while for the survey to finish. >> >> I just got home from work and this is what I am seeing: >> >> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19599147/Z3801A.png >> >> The good news is that the unit no longer telling me the PPS is >> invalid. It looks like it will be another long while before it comes >> out of Recovery (assuming the PPS stays locked). >> >> I'm not the best at interpreting these graphs. At this point, should I >> be concerned abouth the spikey nature of the EFC graph, or will things >> calm down eventually? I assume that the PPS graph won't show until >> Recovery is done? >> >> If this unit loses PPS lock again, or otherwise acts up, then I would >> assume it is a hardware problem, and I'll have to put it on the bench. >> >> Joe Gray >> W5JG >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > > -- > Dave > manu...@artekmanuals.com > www.ArtekManuals.com > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.