Re: [time-nuts] Weird GPSDO behavior

[Rob Kimberley]

I'd go with a power surge as it's so regular at 8AM.
Rob

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From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Skip Withrow
Sent: 28 September 2017 21:18
To: time-nuts
Subject: [time-nuts] Weird GPSDO behavior

Hello Time-Nuts,

I have a NTGS50AA GPSDO (close cousin to the NTBW50AA and Thunderbolt) with the 
OCXO removed and a SRS PRS-10 rubidium oscillator in its place.  I have been 
running Lady Heather 5.0 and have changed the damping, gain, and time constant 
to give me a 20,000 second time constant with a damping of .6.  I have attached 
a Lady Heather screen shot of the weird behavior.  You can see that my GPS 
antenna is in a very none ideal location (window on the west side of the 
building).

Once per day (about 8am) something disturbs the system.  So, the GPSDO spends 
much of its time recovering and never gives me anywhere near the performance 
that this system is capable of.  I would think that it is not the PRS-10 as it 
has no knowledge of time.  I would also think that it is not the GPS system or 
receiver, since the GPS constellation repeats twice per day.

Kind of the two things that I am left with are a glitch by the power company 
every morning (there is some large industrial machinery across the street (but 
then I would kind of expect glitches at 8am and 5pm), and perhaps Lady Heather 
doing something funny.  This system has been running for quite some time, I 
have not tried restarting Lady Heather yet.

Anybody seen anything like this, or have any good ideas?

Thanks in advance,
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