Hi The rollover is in the GPS module firmware. If you dig into it, they didn't quite update the firmware once every 3 months, but almost that often. Each manufacturer latched onto various versions as they sailed by. None of them had a validation process that could keep up with 4 releases a year...
Bob > On Sep 5, 2016, at 8:44 AM, Ben Hall <kd5...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 9/4/2016 10:48 PM, Mark Sims wrote: >> Sometime (I didn't have it connected) in the last couple of weeks >> my Z3801A went into gps week rollover. >> >> If you have a Z3801A that had been working properly you might want to >> check yours. Different firmware versions roll over at different >> times. > > My Z3801 seems to be working fine, reporting today as 05 Sep 2016: > > <http://www.kd5byb.net/kd5bybgpscon/gpsstat.htm> > > That said, it had been off for a long time prior to it going back online in > December 2014. When I fired it back up, it did misreport the date until I > forced with, the set time command I believe? > > I've never been able to figure out the self-test error. It keeps > working...so I keep using it... ;) > > 14 years of power-on time... :) > > thanks much and 73, > ben, kd5byb > _______________________________________________ > 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.
