On 2010-02-12, xyz-2041 <xyz2...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK. Couldn't get the Oncore unit to work in any way > shape or form. I bought a DB9 LED tester like this: > > <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260546635257> > > Had PPS going to pin 1, DATA OUT to pin 2, and DATA IN to pin 3. > Still > no good. > You didn't mention if your ground wire was connected to pin 5? Did the tester LED's flicker as expected? Was there data passing in both directions from and to the computer? Was the PPS LED flashing one time per second?
Your previous post to this group stated that your Oncore was working with the Motorola WinOncore utility. Did the observed satellites ever show 'Locked' in the display? The last time that I had to re-initialize an Oncore, I found that the almanac file that shipped with WinOncore was too old to be of any use with the current constellation. My Oncores seem to grab a new almanac quicker when placed in the NMEA mode. I let my receiver run until all satellites in view showed lock status and then saved the almanac to a disk file. I reinitialized my receiver in the Motorola binary mode and loaded the new almanac that was just saved. The receiver showed that it was locked within about 5 minutes. Once it was working correctly using the Motorola binary protocol, I connected it to my FreeBSD time server and restarted NTPD. Everything worked as expected. Tom -- Public Keys: PGP KeyID = 0x5F22FDC1 GnuPG KeyID = 0x620836CF _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
